Gervase Markham wrote:
I think there's a strong driver for uptake. As I understand it, all these video-sharing sites are paying mountains of cash to Adobe/Macromedia for the backend software licences to support Flash video streaming. If they could have 15 or 20% fewer servers doing that, and stream to Firefox using Theora instead, the cost saving would be an incentive for them to change their site. Particularly if we implemented <video> in a way which gave them all the capabilities the flash player has - e.g. fast forward, rewind, seek etc.
But there's one capability of Flash I don't want to give them: the ability to block users from easily downloading, editing, and reusing the content.
You may be right, and I hope you are, but I suspect content hording may be important enough to them to justify the extra 15% or 20% cost.
OTOH, this might enable lower cost, less hordeful competitors, That would be nice.
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