Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Small victories, but more work to be
done":
Today I got a letter from YNET that they are moving their videos to
Flash from WMV to support Firefox and Linux users.
Hi,
I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important
for Linux or Firefox users?
Last time I checked, most Linux distributions could play neither WMV nor
Flash movies out of the box, but software to do both is available for free.
Software to play WMV is even available as free software (e.g., mplayer)?
Or am I missing something?
True, but...
1. Adobe has released a full spec for their flash format allowing a
complete Free implementation. They also released the scripting engine as
open source.
2. Adobe provides a proprietary flash player for Linux.
3. WMV (really the associated codecs, but the affect is the same ) is
covered by numerous patents which are activly protected in the most
brutal way, whereas the FLV format, as so much that it is patented (I
don't know it is but I assume it is) is not, at the moment.
Not a case of black and white by a long shot, but I would say flash is
"brighter" then WMV.
Gilad
--
Gilad Ben-Yossef
Chief Coffee Drinker
Codefidence Ltd.
The code is free, your time isn't.(TM)
Web: http://codefidence.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: +972-8-9316883 ext. 201
Fax: +972-8-9316885
Mobile: +972-52-8260388
Q: How many NSA agents does it take to replace a lightbulb?
A: dSva7DrYiY24yeTItKyyogFXD5gRuoRqPNQ9v6WCLLywZPINlu!
