[thelist] Youtube Style Player for WMV & ASX

[Beach Computers Web Hosting]

John,

Thanks for the well input information.
So, from reading this, am I correct in understanding that the client will
then need to download a viewer to use this technology?

Also, just to clarify my initial question, by youtube I meant just the
player, not the features such as bookmark or showeing relevant clips at the
end.

 
Dave
 
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of John Dowdell
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:19 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Youtube Style Player for WMV & ASX

Beach Computers Web Hosting wrote:
>  Is there such a thing as a youtube style flash player that can play WMV
> and/or asx files?
> A free one perhaps?

Not yet, but it looks like Microsoft is trying to duplicate this 
functionality. The first generation of in-browser video always added the 
interface "chrome" from Real, Apple or Microsoft... one of the reasons 
Flash Video took off, aside from the lowered support costs for 
configuring the audience, was that it was chromeless... would simply add 
video to the HTML page, and you could choose/create what type of 
playback controls to expose.

The Microsoft "WPF/e" plugin, now in first beta, seems to be mostly 
about duplicating this chromeless approach for Windows Media, with 
rights-management if you use the Microsoft video server technology. I 
don't know what its eventual consumer adoption might be.

jd




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