TonyMontana — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:19:46 +0000

And you said, IMO I think flash has had its day, .

TonyMontana
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Busy — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:23:49 +0000

check out webattack.com in their latest newsletter they mention a program called boomer, here is the text from the newsletter

I talked to Harry from Crazy Ivan productions last night - they just released an updated version of Boomer, that now supports Flash 6 compression as well. Boomer can compress your files into streaming SWF format, and produce some amazing results. You can compress stream a 600 kb WAV file down to 20-40k and stream it into any browser that has the Flash player installed (almost all of them). In addition, you can compress movies and images as well! Check out this simple example - I compressed the Windows Logon sound WAV file (500k) down to 30k - it will play instantly in your browser. If you're a myWebAttack member, you even get $10,00 off if you decide to buy it.

ValleyPages — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:33:19 +0000

I agree with Megan...mp3s player software should be on most computers. Besides Windows Media Player plays them as well and that is installed with Windows.

Megan — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:10:06 +0000

Well, I guess it depends what kind of audio it is (music, speech etc.), how long it is and whether or not you want to play it directly in the browser or if downloading is okay. The problem with wav is that the file sizes are pretty big compared to mp3's. Real format is even smaller I think.

club-art.net — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:25:17 +0000

I think you should use low quality .wav format.

Megan — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:55:04 +0000

Or you could offer MP3's for download, that's a really popular format these days and most people would have the software to play it (realistically most people should have something that will play MP3's). Another good idea would be to provide a couple of different formats so people could choose.

Unforunately there seems to be very little quality information about audio/video options available. Look around at other sites offering audio/video and see what they use. Quicktime is another popular format for video. Good luck

Brian Farkas — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:29:49 +0000

Well, if you choose the .wav format, all users on windows will be able to hear that automatically.. Although real is becoming more and more popular. Hope this helps!

Brian