I had a long talk with a few folks about flash. I believe it has its place, but is over hyped. But the real reason I'm not doing flash videos is that it is closed source. You are at the mercy of Adobe for the players and they can change the format whenever they'd like, leaving all the related FOSS projects hanging. The likelihood of that happening are slim, but we've seen it before with MS products.
When it comes to the web, I feel it is best if one follows the open standards as much as possible. These tend to be easier to work with, and less prone to the whims of a vendor. My thoughts. Shawn Evan Cortens wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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/ > <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 > <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] <mailto:[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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
