Did you embed the Quicktime videos in HTML? If you link directly to the video file the way FreeVlog suggests, then you will definitely hear complaints about people not being able to see your video. If you use an embedded player, or a popup window with an embedded player, as I suggest, its likely you won't hear the complaints. This is an Internet Explorer issue, not a Quicktime issue. Quicktime is just as easy to install as Flash. And the adoption rates of Flash 7-8 are highly exaggerated. You need the most recent version of Flash plugin to see most Flash video, which requires an upgrade -- no different than requiring viewers to have QT, which they probably already have anyway.
-Josh On 1/12/06, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to post only in Quicktime. I got a lot of feedback saying > that people couldn't see my videos. Well maybe not a lot. But a few. > My mom, my buddy who has a Win98 machine a few others. Mostly people > who know me. I would suspect that there were more that I didn't hear > from as well. Especially since I don't hear from 90% or more of the > visitors to my site. I would bet that it's safe to guess that most > people who can't view my videos never even think to tell me about > it. I also know that there are a lot of people who watch my videos > on their work computers. I work in a large corporate environment, we > don't have Quicktime installed on our machines, but we do have > flash. We aren't allowed to install Quicktime either. This isn't a > unique situation. And I would bet that the reason RocketBoom doesn't > have any complaints is because they do offer multiple formats. > > Bill Streeter > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS > www.lofistl.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I think the whole argument that Flash has the most ubiquity is a > bit of a myth. > > Rocketboom has always been embedded Quicktime. They have a huge > daily audience. > > No one ever complains that they can't see the Quicktime video. Of > > course they provide other formats too because some people prefer > them. > > Honestly, the myth that Quicktime isn't supported is more because > > people use Internet Explorer on Windows, which sort of sabotages > > Quicktime playback (it will not "fast start" quicktime unless it is > > properly embedded in an HTML page). My answer to this is to use > pop-up > > windows with the video embedded, and I wrote a simple code > generator > > so that people can do it easily: > > > > http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker > > > > Try it, enter the URL of a video file, add some of the other info > if > > you want and watch what happens. The link will pop up a small > window > > with the video embedded. It works for Windows Media too. I could > > probably add FLV support as well, just haven't taken the time to do > > it. > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
