begin quoting Chris Seberino as of Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:10:12PM -0800: > It is very odd that *video* is not more widely used like > text and sounds are over the Internet. Bandwidth isn't infinite.
> There is no ubiquitous easy format for video the same way > that text has ASCII/HTML and sound has MP3/Ogg. Sure there is. It's called MPEG. > (I think Ogg has a video format but it is not widely used IIRC.) > > You would think that by 2006 there would be all kinds of cool > open source video apps everyone would be playing with by the millions. What, expect open-source to _innovate_ fundamental designs? Do you think we're living in the 80s? > Why hasn't there been a "killer video app" yet and more commercial sites > supporting a sane format that is NOT something lame like > Real Player, QuickTime, Windows Media Player?!? Sheesh! Are you looking for a format (MPEG) or an application (iMovie)? The big problem with video is that it's _huge_. It's a lot of data for not a lot of content. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
