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Yes and No
By sprockkets on 6/19/2009 3:24:06 PM , Rating: 4
Flash is more than welcome for stuff like

But for playing actual video files, no. HTML5 with theora/vorbis in an ogg container is OK for now (works OK in Linux but poorly in Windows via FF3.5 B4).

What FF should do is use mplayer as a plugin to play the video. It's GPL, and can "plug" the video through the video card system like it should, rather than trying to poorly render it in the browser window.

Adobe should be worried. Youtube pretty much put Flash as a video player on the map - it can just as easily wipe it away.

And as I usually say, better Flash than various sites either using Real, WMV, or the plague of the internet, Quicktime.

RE: Yes and No
By freezer on 6/20/2009 2:04:08 PM , Rating: 2

Really? Why in the heck somebody would want to use another obscure video codec as you can use H.264/Mpg4 easily with Flash nowadays?

H.264 codec is used by blueray and some professional cameras which means its much more widely accepted format.

RE: Yes and No
By Yawgm0th on 6/21/2009 4:29:50 AM , Rating: 5
Ogg is a container format, not a codec, with Theora and Vorbis being the encoding formats (codecs) for video and audio, respectively. They are open standards and although not as widely used as they could be, they are anything but obscure. That said, there are much better codecs than Theora, and the only non-open standards are WMV and Quicktime, neither of which is the best anyway. Vorbis, conversely would be a sensible audio format for web radio and potentially other applications.

Ogg implemented in HTML alongside a good video codec would be superior to Flash in many respects. Flash is an all-in-one multimedia solution popular on the web because it can provide reasonable quality at very low bandwidth. But if HTML 5 allows that to be done reasonably or more effectively using open video standards and browser plug-ins (or better yet, browsers with built-in playback), it doesn't make any sense for flash to be utilized for video playback on sites like Youtube. It will be better for all parties except Adobe to move away from Flash.


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