Web players

[sorvju-f]

I know that Jonathan is using in his Blue World flash player. Reason to use that is wider audience base.

I was assembling new Windows 7 machine to my friend and I notice something interesting....Windows mediaplayer is now playing straight .mov ( means final cut ) videos.

Quick time-player is behind now...I feel soon we see changes there also;)

Jukka

[Jonathan Bird]

Sorry this went to wrong thread....moderator please help me to move this under videography.

Done! :) :)

[Jonathan Bird]

I know that Jonathan is using in his Blue World flash player. Reason to use that is wider audience base.

True. I'm not a fan of flash video, but it has the highest rate of installed players in the world due to YouTube. Something like 98% of people with computers connected to the internet have the flash player. Only something like 75% have quicktime.

The nice part is that the new generation of browsers coming out are going to support video playing natively, so you won't need a plug-in (flash, quicktime or WMP) to play most video formats, and that might be the end of the issue. Hopefully. Who knows what format they will "prefer" but all the decent web formats these days are based on the same H.264 format, whether it's quicktime, flash or windows movie, because H.264 is the most efficient. We are actually using H.264 .mp4 files on the Blue World site and just playing them through the flash plug-in because flash plays .mp4 files, and I don't need a special flash encoder to generate these files--I can do it through Compressor in the FCP suite. Double bonus is that the ipod can play the same files, so we can create one file that is used for iTunes and the website. Saves a lot of hassle, web space and confusion.

Jonathan

[sorvju-f]

True. I'm not a fan of flash video, but it has the highest rate of installed players in the world due to YouTube. Something like 98% of people with computers connected to the internet have the flash player. Only something like 75% have quicktime.

The nice part is that the new generation of browsers coming out are going to support video playing natively, so you won't need a plug-in (flash, quicktime or WMP) to play most video formats, and that might be the end of the issue. Hopefully. Who knows what format they will "prefer" but all the decent web formats these days are based on the same H.264 format, whether it's quicktime, flash or windows movie, because H.264 is the most efficient. We are actually using H.264 .mp4 files on the Blue World site and just playing them through the flash plug-in because flash plays .mp4 files, and I don't need a special flash encoder to generate these files--I can do it through Compressor in the FCP suite. Double bonus is that the ipod can play the same files, so we can create one file that is used for iTunes and the website. Saves a lot of hassle, web space and confusion.

Jonathan

Even they all are using H264 formats there are differencies in quality...still I feel .mov is the best.

Jukka

[Jonathan Bird]

I agree, but it all comes down to bitrate.