On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:40 -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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.
Doesn't BitTorrent (a Python app!) save all? > > 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. Then how come everyone doesn't use MPEG? For example, I wanted to watch a 20 min tutorial video of a great Python web framework at turbogears.com. They did it in QuickTime!?!? Why would an open source project do a QuickTime video if MPEG is so great? How popular would the web be today if instead of HTML the world had 4 or 5 competing incompatible markup languages in 1993? I'm guessing video usage and innovation would explode when people rallied around 1 format for video like MPEG. Perhaps it really all just boils down to bandwidth. Maybe we all just have to wait for broadband and BitTorrent to penetrate 90 of US households. Chris
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