- From: Charles <lists07@wiltgen.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:38:56 -0700
> The current standard for publishing media on the Web, in particular > consumer media, is Adobe Flash. This isn't specifically directed at Silvia, but let's all be careful not to conflate a particular runtime with any actual or de facto standards that the runtime supports. The first YouTube media format was Sorenson Spark (a minor variant of H.263) and MP3 in a simple FLV file format. The media bitstreams are mostly standard-based, and there are many mobile players (like Kinoma Player) that support it. YouTube eventually introduced their mobile m.youtube.com site, which is full-on 3GPP-compatible MPEG-4. Today, all YouTube video is also encoded as high-quality MPEG-4 (AVC and AAC). Flash is still the PC runtime, but it won't be on other platforms (iPhone, etc.). -- Charles
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