[thelist] Linking to a movie - best practice?

[Robert Gormley]

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> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Ettinger
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> > Yes, the Ogg container format has a video codec, that's what Ogg 
> > Theora is. While still technically alpha, the bitstream format is 
> > frozen so movies encoded with alpha 3 (I think?) or later 
> will work in 
> > all future Ogg Theora decoders.
> > 
> 
> It's ashame the portable players don't support OGG.
> WOuld've loved to rip my cd collection as ogg instead of mp3. 
> But not very useful on an iPod.

Or, just as pertinent for Shawn, who is always talking about
portability:

I work in cellular internet development and I can say that while the
next generation of cellphones all support Flash(-Lite), not one of them
supports either Ogg for audio, or Thora for video (and in response to
his other suggestion, MPEG1 is also either not or spottily supported,
probably due to very large size in comparison to other formats, which is
the big killer).

Robert