[android-developers] Re: Why Android cannot play .avi but can play youtube (avi?) and flash?

2010-09-08 Thread Alessandro Pellizzari
Il Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:32:15 -0700, Mystique ha scritto: Most youtube are flash am I right? then the codec must be build in somewhere? AVI is just a container, not a format. Videos on Youtube are tipically in mp4 format, for which Android has a decoder. Only the chrome (the interface around

[android-developers] Re: Why Android cannot play .avi but can play youtube (avi?) and flash?

2010-09-08 Thread Mystique
Thanks Alessandro for the explanation :) On Sep 8, 5:37 pm, Alessandro Pellizzari a...@amiran.it wrote: Il Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:32:15 -0700, Mystique ha scritto: Most youtube are flash am I right? then the codec must be build in somewhere? AVI is just a container, not a format. Videos on

[android-developers] Re: Why Android cannot play .avi but can play youtube (avi?) and flash?

2010-09-08 Thread Traveler
I'm not certain, but I think YouTube converts uploaded AVI files to Flash, or some other format before putting them online. On Sep 8, 5:32 am, Mystique joven.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Most youtube are flash am I right? then the codec must be build in somewhere? -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: Why Android cannot play .avi but can play youtube (avi?) and flash?

2010-09-08 Thread Mystique
Traveler you are right, my error. On Sep 9, 1:28 am, Traveler jadkins...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not certain, but I think YouTube converts uploaded AVI files to Flash, or some other format before putting them online. On Sep 8, 5:32 am, Mystique joven.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Most youtube are