Quoting Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]>: > I have an awful lot of short music videos (non-interactive), I mean > scores and scores of them, which I downloaded from YouTube in flash > format and converted to .mp4 format. I felt that this would be a more > versatile format for video jukebox type use on unknown machines in the > future (like my eleven thousand plus .mp3 music files, I keep them on an > external hard drive) -- but I could have been completely wrong. > > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:40 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/3/15 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[email protected]>: >> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/highfield_quits_kangaroo/ >> > >> > Ashley Highfield (Ex-BBC Iplayer boss) now works for MS. I seem to >> > recall that the latest appointee of the BBC's media division is an ex >> > MS UK employee. >> > >> >> I wonder how many potential recruits to that role, at that level, with >> the necessary experience would also fall into the group "have once >> worked at Microsoft". >> >> > If you use Flash (or AIR which seems to run perfectly on Ubuntu for >> > iPlayer and Google Analytics) then cross-platform gaming should be easy. >> > >> >> As a parent I can testify that the _vast_ majority of kids content on >> the BBC website is indeed already in various versions of flash. Some >> older video is real format but that's gone out of fashion of late. >> >> Of course neither of those platforms are open, but then if you're >> downloading a closed source game from bbc.co.uk, all bets are off in >> terms of 'I only want free software on my computers'. Fail at multiple >> levels there. >> >> What the BBC _should_ be doing of course is commissioning new Free >> software projects. Rather than having great swathes of code on their >> site that nobody can improve upon, and will eventually die off and >> become unusable when the various versions of flash, air, real (and so >> on) are no longer supported by the vendors. >> >> Even if the games were developed as closed source but cross platform >> that would be a step in the right direction, although not far enough. >> Games such as "World of Goo", "Darwinia", "DEFCON: Everybody Dies" and >> simpler games such as "Neverball" show that it is possible to create >> compelling cross platform games which don't require the budget of >> EA/Warner/Sony etc to do it. >> >> Cheers, >> Al. >> > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > I may just be being picky, but have you thought about converting your videos to .ogv (Ogg Video) and your music to .oga (Ogg Audio), as although it may be easier to play .mp4 and .mp3 on Windows, you can use free software such as VLC to play Ogg on Windows, and Ogg should play out of the box on most Linux distro's. Also, it seems that Ubuntu and a lot of other distro's don't come with out of the box support for .mp4.
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