- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:15:02 -0500
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. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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