From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T00:38:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Plugin like a Youtube

Phlip wrote:
> > > Not everyone has
> > > WMV, and MPEG doesn't come with its own VCR controls, etc.
> >
> > I think you're confusing video formats and players/browser-plugins here.
>
> Sorry - I'm not.

Well, the above sounded like you were saying that WMV (the video format)
has VCR controls (you actually only said that mpeg didn't, but to me it felt
as if you meant to imply that WMV does). Given that the idea of a video format 
including any kind of GUI components seemed pretty absurd to me, I just 
assumed you were confusing things. Since you're not, I'm apparently just
missing something.

> If you want to push movies over the internet, the 
> simplest and most common format is a Flash with an encoder on your
> server. The Flash implementation will come with VCR controls.

True.


> That is 
> the basis of this recommendation; the rest are details.

Details that seemed pretty confusing to me.


> > > Everyone has Flash!
> >
> > I don't.
>
> You are not the customer!

A long time ago I had the painful (and utterly shocking) realization that I
am not always right. It seems only logical to conclude that I am thus not
the customer.
I just wanted to point out that the statement "Everyone has Flash" is not 
entirely true, even if the statement "Every customer has Flash" might be 
(although that obviously depends on whose customers we're talking about).


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