I didn't know that On2 made the video codec for Flash 8.... On2 is also the ones who originally developed the codec for Ogg Theora.
See ya
On 5/23/06,
Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Enric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Macromedia Flash Player Penetration as of April, 2006 is 97.7%:
>
>
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/penetration.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/qh7lf
>
> -- Enric
Whoa! Adobe has been hyping the penetration of what they call "Flash"
with some very misleading figures. First, there are several generations
of Flash. The current release is Flash 8. Please go this site and see
for yourself:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetrat\
ion.html
The 98 per cent -- or thereabouts -- penetration is for earlier
versions. Flash 8 has much better quality for streaming than the
earlier versions and, in my opinion, is well worth looking into for
vlogging.
But. And it is a big butt. You need a Flash 8 Player to look at Flash
8 video. It is a plugin for the browser, but there have been many,
many, problems with the upgrade for IE on Windows for people who are not
computer literate. Adobe has been dreadful about promoting the players
for the general public. I have been dealing with this issue since
January, 2006. People who have just gotten used to email and Google
searching are terrified to update because the process is -- to them --
very daunting. You know, people over 30...
While many of the visitors to vlogging sites are comfortable with the
update process, I have found that the great unwashed of the general
public gets frustrated with the upgrade process.
While it is true that adoption rates for Flash 8 are climbing, none of
the major aggregators such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. are streaming
Flash 8. If you want to see what computer chaos would be like, imagine
what would happen if they converted.
On2 Technologies, the outfit that licenses the Flash 8 compression code
to Adobe and others helped me with the player problem by putting up a
site that will do an express install (no need for user intervention) for
all platforms. You are welcome to use it and link to it:
http://on2.com/flashtest
Now Adobe is making noise about a Flash 9 player coming out very soon.
Does that mean that Flash 8 will be replaced? It only came out in
September of 2005.
If you want to see a comparison of the two versions and an explanation
of the player issues (with an updater),
you can see how I dealt with it on
http://hestakaup.typepad.com/hestablog/2006/02/flash_test.html
There are quite a few clips of Flash 8.
Stan Hirson
http://hestablog.com
http://hestakaup.com
>
> --- In [email protected], "Charles Iliya Krempeaux"
> supercanadian@ wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I thought Flash only had about 90% saturation (not 98%).
> >
> >
> > See ya
--
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
charles @ reptile.ca
supercanadian @ gmail.com
developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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