Flash or Quicktime?

[Jeff Reynolds]

except making a nicely compressed and good quality wmv file is pretty  
much an oxymoron... my old compression guru (been in the biz forever  
and a real artist) still snarls at me when i request wmv files... they  
never come out as nice or as small and the clients always ask why it  
doesnt look as good or play as well as the quicktime version...

unless you are doing HD H264, smaller h264 movies for cdroms and stuff  
play fine on older machines.

an odd aside, been finding lost of corp IT groups stripping flash  
player and plugin out of corp machines to stop video playing through  
browsers (too much executive youtubing at lunch)! some of these were  
fortune 500 companies! had to resort to wmv to get something to those  
folks as they left the wmp on the machines. guess they figured only  
the porn stuff would use the wmv files...


cheers,

jeff



On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> All that said, I don't know that there's a single the best choice; it
> really depends on the specific needs of the application and its target
> audience.  For many consumer apps using QT is just fine, and offers a
> lot of flexibility for the developer with little coding.