Many thansk, Kurt--this is very helpful. S. At 11:14 AM 12/20/04 -0500, you wrote: >Hey Slava, et al., >Many n. Our clients have been complaining about the QT install issue for as >long as I can remember. Up until a few years back, we could make the argument >that the quality and x-plat performance made the QT install worth it. flv >changed that - other vendors started making products for our clients using >flv, and they were happy with it. So, we had to make the switch. > >As for Squeeze and the decisions leading to that choice, I left that up to our >video guys (we're a post-production house as well as multimedia, so I get my >video directly from the editors who know more about compression issues than I >do). I know they tried a couple of encoders before choosing Squeeze, but I >can't tell you why they settled on that one - I think it was a consensus >decision on their part. > >Disadvantages? Haven't come across any other than the ones I mentioned, and as >I said, those two are easy to overcome. We needed to build a tool for creating >a "cue point track" anyway, so we no longer need an actual chapter track (cues >get stored with the rest of the content in xml). As for additional tracks, we >just have two movies for the times where we would have used one QT with two >audio tracks (different languages). The size of the file could be an issue in >that case (and then I'd argue for QT because of that), but it wasn't in the >project where I needed that. > >Playback... It requires Flash 6.something, which is fine with our clients - >they don't have a problem with requiring an upgrade to Flash player 7 on most >of our new projects, because the process is so much more user-friendly than >shockwave's or QT's. If you're offline, though, you're good to go with just >Dir 2004 and the flash asset. > >Outside the app, they'll need the latest Flash player, but as I said, that's >less of an issue for us than requiring QT. > >Did I mention that some of our clients insist on Flash instead of Director, >regardless of which tool is better for the job at hand? This is another reason >for using flv. > >hth, >Kurt
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