fifeclub — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:13:08 +0000

I've been experimenting with some flash video. Nicer than I thought but the file is still 1.7 meg (twice the .rm file) and I can't figure out how to get my test .flv file into a webpage.

Anyway, I can't vouch for the accuracy of this statement but I came across this statement:

Quote: Flash MX-compatible player 6 or later ... penetration now averaging around 96%. That’s compared to figures of 63% for Windows Media Player, 62% for Real Player and 56% for QuickTime.

To me the WMP numbers seem WAY too low. RP seems about right but I doubt QT is over half the general public.

CptAwesome — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:10:40 +0000

I'd go with Quicktime, because it offers you a decent range of quality, and is probably the most widely supported format, without incurring the hate of RealPlayer.

Embedding the video in Flash is also a really good idea.

Greg K — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:27:34 +0000

One thing I'd like to know is what are the popular formats/cleints for NON windows OS's.

Now, my $.02 on my preferences:

Over the years, I have disliked Quicktime for one main reason, their user interface. Now I admit I haven't tried it in a year or so, but gave up on it as when veiwing a 300xsomething video on a screen at 1280x1024, that is pretty tiny. I wanna be able to zoom the sucker

Real player I didn't care for for all the crap that they crammed in with it, however Windows media player is just as bloated anymore IMO. I did switch back to real player mainly becasue, well that is what they stream the Big Brother live video streams with. Plus also the site i use for Bible resouces uses that for audio versions of the verses.

Whenever possible, I prefer WinAmp to play my audio/video. I now use that for listening to online radio/video broadcasts. (I had never used their "media" listing before recently to see what all streams were available, FREE).

I have played a little with displaying video via flash, and found it generally was overall just a little larger than whatever format I imported. I will say I have never played around much with the encoding video, so I may have missed how to make them smaller.

-Greg