Yeah, that's what I had initially thought as well... but FFmpeg is open-source and Flash Video Player is free (Creative Commons License, but not open source I believe...)... you can go from start to finish in making the videos without touching an Adobe/Macromedia product (except the Flash plugin, of course) or Windows (I did all of my work on OS X, actually with FFmpegX, the OS X port)... Certainly something worth considering, it only because it makes it much easier on your web visitors...
I should mention also that sometimes FFmpeg generates .flv files without the appropriate metadata, which can lead to some odd player issues (videos showing up without progress bars or in the wrong resolution). FLVtool2 ( http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2), a little (cross platform: Linux, Mac, Windows) Ruby program, can take care of all of that for you... it's very quick and customizable. On 6/14/07, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 6:58 pm, Evan Cortens wrote: > Hi Peter, > > If I can put in my two cents... my preferred way for streaming video over > the Internet these days is flash video... and I think many web visitors > prefer that too. It's so much easier to set up and play, and requires a > (cross-platform!) plugin that most people have already. > > FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/) can convert to .flv and a great video > player for embedding is Flash Video Player ( > http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_video_Player). Hey Evan, Hmmmm...I didn't even consider flash because of the proprietory Windows software required to make it. I didn't realise there were OS tools to make .flv. Thanks. I'll have to look into that some more... -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
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