Posted by J.O. Aho on 05/27/07 07:32

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> On May 27, 1:29 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
>> cwdjrxyz wrote:
>>> My favorite video format at the moment is the relatively new flv/swf
>>> format.
>> The problem with flv/swf is that adobe do not support a lot of platforms, the
>> mpeg file format is widely supported and will work on far more platforms, see
>> the example in the previously provided link.
>
> Probably flash is supported by a larger number of computers than most
> other major video formats that serious media companies usually use for
> streaming.

So it's better that 90% of the users may see the video than 99% who could see it?

Flash is CPU intensive too, it's far from optimal video format on older machines.


> You are comparing apples with oranges, If you use high resolution flv
> files you get high resolution images. If you use low resolution files
> you get low resolution images. Youtube has to consider that many of
> their viewers may not have very high speed broadband and they want
> their videos to stream. In some cases Google uses the flv flash for
> streaming the video, but provides a much higher resolution video for
> those who are interested enough in the video to want to download it to
> the Google player.

If you call those videos for good quality, then you must be quite blind, even
if the resolution is higher on google, it's not much better than the youtube
videos, the format hasn't been made to have good quality but lower bandwidth
usage (poor quality -> smaller file -> less bandwidth needed).


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//Aho

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