From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T00:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Plugin like a Youtube

I believe his intent was to say that the WMV "plugin" or embed object
has VCR controls, which is valid.

--Jeremy

On 9/24/07, Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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