Posted by dorayme on 04/10/07 23:56

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<1176199007.514746.272540@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 9, 7:33 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > The OS you encode your video with is completely irrelevant to what OS
> > > the user uses to watch it. And there are plenty of free sites that
> > > will encode your video to FLV format. Google, AOL and YouTube are the
> > > first that come to mind. (And no, you don' t have to have your video
> > > hosted on their sites either)
> > oooeee... that's a thought Travis! You mean one can do this
> > without shelling out the hard earned?
>
> Yes. Upload your video (quite a few formats are acceptable), wait
> about a day for them to encode it, then download it from their site.
> There are a ton of tools that let you download (or just grab the full
> URL of the video on their servers) My kids use something called
> "Ook", it is a FF extension that will either download the FLV or give
> you the URL of the FLV to use. Both my 22 year old son and 11 year old
> daughter do this all the time for videos on their MySpace. (Their dad,
> a self proclaimed Flash god, built them custom video players for
> MySpace so they don't have to use that nasty YouTube player)
>
> There are also several freeware, shareware, and commercial options for
> encoding the video yourself. But they are obviously OS specific.

Thanks for this, Travis. Will be going there in a flash. Frankly
I would consider allowing you to formerly adopt me and then I get
to get what your kids get, you will sit there custom building
things for us three. What will you care if I am not a Republican,
I will be more important, one of your own with rebellious views.

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dorayme

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