Pierre-Henri Lavigne wrote:
> About flash, the flash plugin version 7 is minimum required to read .flv or
> something like this. The version 7 is still beta with most unix
> distributions.
Some small datapoints here:
-- Adobe Flash Player 6+ support Sorenson video codec. (NPD audit 97%
consumer viewability, April 2006.)
-- Adobe Flash Player 8+ also support On2 ("Duck") codec. (70% consumer
viewability, April 2006.)
-- Adobe Flash Player for Linux is at v7 (not beta), with v9 expected
towards the turn of the year. (v9 for Mac & Win were released last month.)
References:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/05/yes_virginia_th.cfm
For the original request on *streaming* video, as opposed to
download'n'play or progressive play, Chris Hock has an overview:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_download.html
(For long videos you might want a server for best viewing experience;
for shorter videos you have more options, more play.)
jd
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