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Thanks to you (and to every one) for the clear,
concise explanation of where we are and what is the best thing to do. I
appreciate if very much.
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:28
PM
Subject: [videoblogging] Re: the
continuing frustration
The biggest problem with ANY video is that there is no
consistancy.
There are multiple file formats (wmv, avi, mpg, mov,
etc) and multiple
CODECS within each of those file formats (mp4, 3ivx,
xvid, divx,
etc)... and NONE of them have become common.
Audio is
pretty firmly entrenched in MP3s, and that won't be changing
anytime
soon... no matter what anyone thinks about the quality or
whatever.
Video hasn't reached that point... and I don't really think
it ever
will.
No matter which way you choose to encode your files, there's
going to
be someone who can't see it. That's just the sad
truth. So you're
choice becomes: 1) stick with ONE format and force
your viewers to
download the appropriate player 2) encode your video
in as many
formats, with as many codecs as possible... and hope it covers
enough
people.
People say that FLASH is very prevalent on most
computers (have I seen
the 95% or something)... but I get about 5 calls a
day from people who
don't have Flash on their computers, and since they're
on company
workstations, they don't have permissions to install it.
If the goal is purely "reaching as many people as possible"... I'd
encode one video as a 3ivx .MOV, one as a .WMV, and one as a
Flash
.FLV. If someone can't see at least one of those, they need to
upgrade.
-Terry
http://boycottsociety.blogspot.com
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In [email protected], "BevSykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > I have studied all of Josh's excellent training
videos and tried
everything and nothing works
consistently.
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