As far as serving video, my experiments have shown that it is often better to use a service that does it for a living, like Vimeo, than to depend on one's own servers. $60/year buys up to 5 gigs of video a month. Far better than youtoob.
And if one ends up using a browser for displaying video content, then I've found the JW Player at Longtail to be the the best imbedded player available today. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Pierre Sahores <s...@sahores-conseil.com>wrote: > Just follow Bob on this : about audio, don't search any best way than mp3. > Will works as expected against any end-user target. I'm not so sure as Bob > is about mp2 indeed : lowest compression than mp4 and its useful H264 > declinaison. > > Le 18 janv. 2013 à 03:52, Robert Sneidar a écrit : > > > Lowest common denominator then. For audio, use mp3. For video, mpeg2. > Just about every modern os supports those 2 out of the box. > > > > Bob Sneidar > > IT Manager > > Calvary Chapel CM > > Sent from iPhone > > > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 18:38, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > wrote: > > > >> Thanks for all the responses. The audio/video files will be prepared by > my client and served over the internet to customers. We have control over > the format, the names, whatever is needed. > >> > >> The catch is that the people who will be viewing the media can be on > any computer, often one they don't own (i.e., student labs, coffeeshops, > their neighbors, etc.) and we can't require any software installation. The > app itself will almost always be on a thumb drive. > >> > >> No software installs means the media can't require QT, any special > codecs, etc. Whatever is the lowest common denominator is what we have to > use. For Macs I can depend on QT but for Windows users I can't. > >> > >> If the decompressor or codec can be shipped with the app then that may > be something we could do. But I always thought codecs were installed into > the OS, and we can't do that. > >> > >> I'm pretty sure my client, who is an audiophile, wouldn't be happy with > MPEG-1. So I'm open to suggestions. > >> > >> -- > >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- > Pierre Sahores > mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 > www.sahores-conseil.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode