Hi all,
Many people would not yet have considered how business and organisations
are going to handle video as a standard document format. Can we get some
feedback about how much interest there would be in a proposal for
standard guidelines related to upload, storage, display of video and its
I'm producing a small video, and per request, he wants it in wmv format.
What's the extent of apple/linux guys being able to view this format?
are their codecs for non-windows systems?
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Subject: [WSG] video standards?
From:brian cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Tue, November 16, 2004 11:40 am
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VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is a player that handles (most) wmv
movies and is available for a large number of platforms.
I'm not a video expert, but heres my understanding of the market:
1. wmv files are a MS propriety implementation of MPEG4.
2. Generally the files are considerably smaller
--- brian cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm producing a small video, and per request, he wants it in wmv
format.
What's the extent of apple/linux guys being able to view this format?
are their codecs for non-windows systems?
There actually is a version of Windows Media Player
I dont know a whole lot about video stuff but I agree with Terrence
and though Windows media is available for Mac OS, very few would
install in let alone use it! .mov is a better way of going about
surely.
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:28:34 -0800 (PST), Edwin Horneij
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Hi,
If the client is at all flexible, I would suggest looking into .flv.
The flash video fromat is taking off like wildfire, and with the flash
player penetration, it is a stable solution:
http://www.flashstreamworks.com/
C
On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 09:40 AM, brian cummiskey wrote:
I'm
Chris Kennon wrote:
Hi,
If the client is at all flexible, I would suggest looking into .flv. The
flash video fromat is taking off like wildfire, and with the flash
player penetration, it is a stable solution:
http://www.flashstreamworks.com/
Looks great- But i don't have flash, nor have even
Within QuickTime there are are many codecs available, including AVI, MPEGs 1
2 and MPEG 4, etc. This is what I've found (the hard way) when dealing
with video:
AVI is an old MS codec that they haven't supported in years that thrill
Windows users because of the small file sizes. IMHO, the
.mov is QuickTime and Windows users are as likely to download and install that
as Mac users are to install Windows Media Player. And even if you use Windows
Media Player, the issue of codecs remains - not all codecs are available for
the Mac and some do not play at all or play the video with no
Brian,
.mov is both platforms (don't know about Linux, but don't doubt it's
there too) more so than .wmv. And iMovie is cheap and also a piece of
cake to use, if not more so. ;)
Also, to Chris's point, there are more people with Flash than
anything else (both platforms included, again not up
Well,
I guess that was the end.
C
On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 01:40 PM, brian cummiskey wrote:
Looks great- But i don't have flash, nor have even messed around with
it (frankly, i can't stand flash websites),
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Hugh Todd wrote:
I had a listen Frank Casanova's talk, given recently at the CTIA
Wireless IT Entertainment Conference in San Francisco (
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/ctia2004/ ), and was impressed by
the commitment Apple appears to be showing to open standards in video
and audio media.
Matthew,
You make some good points. However:
1) The MPEG-LA (Licensing Authority), as far as I know, is only the
legal clearing-house for the MPEG-4 technology, which has been
developed at the behest of a large number of the manufacturers and
developers in the video market. No one person or
Like many Internet technologies it can be difficult, if not impossible, to
go to a standard, particularly video which has matured enormously.
If you have the resources to offer video in multiple formats (Real, Windows
Media, Flash, etc) good for you (and nothing derogatory meant by that).
I
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:33, Damian Sweeney wrote:
.mov is generally not available for Linux (with the exception of
using Codeweavers wine ($$) to run Quicktime for Windows in Linux).
The Linux mplayer plugin for Firefox [1] will play pretty much
everything I have tested, though some of the M$
Peter,
I think Macromedia's Flash product has a lot going for it,
particularly in
the player penetration stakes. Anything that can make both
publishing and
viewing video content on the web can only be a good thing (unless it
is more
pr0n).
A good argument, though not a standards-based one!
But
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