Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
On 10/30/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/
