I used to post only in Quicktime. I got a lot of feedback saying that people couldn't see my videos. Well maybe not a lot. But a few. My mom, my buddy who has a Win98 machine a few others. Mostly people who know me. I would suspect that there were more that I didn't hear from as well. Especially since I don't hear from 90% or more of the visitors to my site. I would bet that it's safe to guess that most people who can't view my videos never even think to tell me about it. I also know that there are a lot of people who watch my videos on their work computers. I work in a large corporate environment, we don't have Quicktime installed on our machines, but we do have flash. We aren't allowed to install Quicktime either. This isn't a unique situation. And I would bet that the reason RocketBoom doesn't have any complaints is because they do offer multiple formats.
Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the whole argument that Flash has the most ubiquity is a bit of a myth. > Rocketboom has always been embedded Quicktime. They have a huge daily audience. > No one ever complains that they can't see the Quicktime video. Of > course they provide other formats too because some people prefer them. > Honestly, the myth that Quicktime isn't supported is more because > people use Internet Explorer on Windows, which sort of sabotages > Quicktime playback (it will not "fast start" quicktime unless it is > properly embedded in an HTML page). My answer to this is to use pop-up > windows with the video embedded, and I wrote a simple code generator > so that people can do it easily: > > http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker > > Try it, enter the URL of a video file, add some of the other info if > you want and watch what happens. The link will pop up a small window > with the video embedded. It works for Windows Media too. I could > probably add FLV support as well, just haven't taken the time to do > it. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
