- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:05:10 +1100
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > On 10/30/06, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: >> Places like YouTube and Google Video work around this by >> building their own interface using Flash, which handles multiple formats >> seamlessly for the user. > > Not exactly. Flash players only play FLV video files. And that's it > (AFAIK). > > Behind the scenses... server-side... other video formats a transcoded to > FLV. Ok, I wasn't sure about that. >> but the current problem holding it back is the lack of implementation >> in the major media players and browsers. > > This might be the chicken and the egg problem. That's not a problem. The egg came first, the chicken evolved later. :-) Besides, many people are already publishing audio and video using ogg, we just need the native implementations in major media players to bring it more into the mainstream. >> I aware that there are many implementations of ogg available, but >> Windows Media Player, Quick Time and Real Player don't. > > http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ > http://xiph.org/quicktime/ > https://helixcommunity.org/frs/?group_id=7 Unfortunately, they're not native implementations, which is a problem. If they shipped with the players, it would be great! -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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