> 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.
What exactly is your prefered method of streaming video then? The other streaming options, such as Real Video, Windows Media, Quicktime, etc., are all proprietary AFAIK. The nice thing about flash is that it's easy to create and publish content, as Evan said, and it works without having to deal with a bunch of messy plugins. I realize that there are options for the other formats as well, but I find that the mplayer plugin does not always work and Crossover Office is often less than ideal. Jesse _______________________________________________ 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
