RE: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-16 Thread Foskett, Mike
Sent: 15 January 2009 21:51 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: My recommendation is that you convert the movies to FLV and use a standard Flash FLV player. You'll find better support

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Nancy Johnson
Firefox 2 asked for quicktime plugins. My company won't allow you to install quicktime on their pcs. Nancy On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ron Zisman ronzis...@mac.com wrote: anybody know of a solid way to embed quicktime movies cross-platform--in a standards sort of way. i've googled

RE: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Steve Green
...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Johnson Sent: 15 January 2009 18:58 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform Firefox 2 asked for quicktime plugins. My company won't allow you to install quicktime on their pcs. Nancy On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Brett Patterson
? Most non-Mac users won't have QuickTime. Steve -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Johnson Sent: 15 January 2009 18:58 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Zisman
installed user base? Most non-Mac users won't have QuickTime. Steve -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Johnson Sent: 15 January 2009 18:58 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Christian Montoya
My recommendation is that you convert the movies to FLV and use a standard Flash FLV player. You'll find better support that way, and you can do things like basic streaming, rather than just putting the videos on the page with object or embed. -- -- Christian Montoya mappdev.com ::

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread William Simpson
I will have to concur with Christian on the issue of presenting any videos. Look at Youtube and they do use Flash video for the maximum exposure to the audience. Quicktime doesn't always work for every computer due to other complications in conflicting with other video codecs, installation issues,

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Zisman
On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: My recommendation is that you convert the movies to FLV and use a standard Flash FLV player. You'll find better support that way, and you can do things like basic streaming, rather than just putting the videos on the page with object or

Re: [WSG] embedding quicktime .mov cross-platform

2009-01-15 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 16-Jan-09, at 2:38 AM, William Simpson wrote: Flash is the ultimate cross-browser/operating system software. Unless you'd like to target the iphone/ipod touch. I know that Youtube is moving some (all?) of their content over to H.264 [1]. Best, - Rahul. [1]