Fans of new developments in online video might be interested to look at Media Core: http://mediacore.com/
It's a social portal centered around video, with the main feature that their player decides video format you should get depending on the device used. This got me thinking about where the world is at on universal players and the video format wars. Brian's updated roundup is helpful: <http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/OC/HTML5+Web+Resources> But it seems there's not been much progress toward easy universality. Neither H.264 nor WebM/VP8 can be used in all situations, so each piece of content needs to be in at least 2 formats. The player needs to decide the best way to deliver, based on platform, browser and manufacturer's video religion. The "try HTML5 but fall back to Flash" approach seems to be used by Longtail (formerly JW Player) too. <http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/> Any other developments in this area recently? George _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
