[vox] Streaming flash videos yourself (no YouTube or Google Video needed)

[Dave Margolis]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Gabriel G. Rosa wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:01:58PM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote:
>> For any given type of video, a user needs a new player (or at least a
>> new library of codecs).  Flash video plays in the Flash player -
>> which almost everybody has or can easily get.  The Flash player is
>
> And by "almost everybody" you mean "almost everybody running Windows,
> OSX, or i386 Linux (and perhaps some i386 FreeBSD guys running the elf
> emulation mode, and the amd64 guys running in a 32bit chroot)".
>
> Which really translates to: "almost everybody Adobe will allow".
>
> The free (as in speech) flash plugin doesn't seem to handle video yet.
>
> -Gabe

I agree the lack for Flash player for PPC Linux (for example) is  
bothersome.  And it is a problem for me personally, as my favorite  
Linux box is an old G3 iMac running Kubuntu.  But the codec game is  
just painful.  I have to run some videos in VLC, others in mplayer,  
the vlc browser plugin almost never works for embedded video...and so  
on.

I maintain that Flash-based video is the best free (as in beer) way  
to do web video right now - but I've love to hear anybody's  
recommendations...

Dave