Oops that was supposed to read .mov not .moc

Would be keen to hear from others with opinions on this sort of stuff too, I 
know a lot of 
people are probably keeping things simple by offering 2 or 3 different 
versions, eg a 
mpeg4 or h264 .mp4 or .mov, and a flash version thats usually encoded for them 
by the 
video host. 

Where are we with resoluton these days? Seems like quite a few people ahve been 
toying 
with moving up from 320x240 to 480x or 640xresolutions, but understandably not 
much 
HD yet.

I waffled about flash h.264 support being out a while back, and got no 
responses at all, 
has this appeared on the radar much yet?

Oh and just to round off my (much rarer these days) codec waffle, I see DivX 
bought 
Mainconcept, a company that does stuff with h264, a while back, thus reducing 
the 
likelihood that they will become completely irrelevant, although I dont know 
what their 
plans are in regards h264, they are in a strange position really, strong brand, 
in an 
increasingly claustrophobic h264 based world. We are so near to format 
convergence and 
common standards, and yet so far away still from the benefits this could bring.

And thats without even mentioning the open format issues, that it would be 
better if we 
were embracing something non-proprietary, without licensing fee's, but how the 
actual 
practical realities of ogg theora are not going to encourage mass uptake as 
things stand. 
Meanwhile the next version of HTML gets ever closer, with its support for a 
video tag that 
will make embedding video into web pages very easy, but only if all the 
browsers support 
a common format.

Wibble!

Cheers

Steve Elbows


 
--- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> too). Files ending in .moc could be mpeg4 or h264 or many other codec types 
> (that 
people 
> shouldnt normally be using for web distribution, so for vlogs the movs are 
> usually 
mpeg4 
> or h264).


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