Probably where you'll see the most use of flash, and where it makes
the most sense, is from the various video hosting services that are
using it. Because it can be expensive or complex for people to create
flash videos themselves, but web serviceproviders can do this part for
people. So there are some video hosting services that let you upload
video in a range of formats and they convert it to flash and make it
available.
Flash sure has its uses, but so do the alternatives. As there is no
'one size fits all' solution at the moment, the ultimate is to offer a
few different formats of your video. Eg create mp4 and host it
somewhere to serve the RSS/ipod/etc "I want to download it' type
viewers needs, then also send that mp4 to a suitable host whose system
creates a flash version of the video, and offer that flash version as
more of a 'nearly everyone can see this so I'll embed it directly into
my blog post' solution.
This situation may not change for a long time. If lots more hardware
video players appear and they all use different formats, then we may
expect that software on the viewers computer will have to deal with
this issue. (as its unreasonable to expect that video puslishers are
going to offer the file in 10 different formats). So for example Sony
PSP software that can download videoblogs, will convert to suitable
format when user sends that video to their PSP. Hopefully other
devices will take a similar approach, but give that software away free
rather than charging for it like Sony does. If this is what happens,
or devices all stick to a common type of mp4, then at least things
arent going to get any more complicated in the future.
Unfortunately the situation is a little more complex than the picture
Ive painted, because theres also wmv, real, DivX and maybe even a few
other formats that some people like. I like to push for a real simple
future where some kind of .mp4 will be a good solution for nearly
everyone, but it probably wont end up being that simple.
Cheers
Steve of Elbows
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Streeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A lot of people use flash, but there are a lot of issues with it that
> don't make it the Ideal for video blogging. Flash is a great way of
> making your videos more accessible to more people since Flash is
> pretty ubiquitous. But the issues with it have to do with the fact
> that it's not easy to distribute it via RSS.
>
> I post in both Flash and Quicktime and it seems to be a good solution
> for now.
>
>
> Bill Streeter
> LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
> www.lofistl.com
>
>
> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "thebigboomboom"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everone, I am new to videoblogging and I noticed no one seems
> to
> > use Flash. Most of the vlogs seem to be Quick Time. I am using a PC
> > ;however, my video editing software supports quick time. Flash files
> > seem to be smaller and the video looks better. What is up? Also
> what
> > is this newer codex somthing 265?
> > Dale
> >
>
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