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

[jim stockford]

thank you
now that i picture melissa's mom, i think
i kind of get it.


On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:22:42PM -0800, jim stockford wrote:
>>> but haven't liked that I'm merely throwing up "<a href>" links to the
>>> AVI
>>> files I pull off of my digital camera.
>> how come?
>
> Well, for one, all a person sees is something like:
>
>   _mvi_1234.avi_
>
> If I were cool, I'd actually spend some time putting a screenshot from
> the video there, but just don't have the time for that manual process.
>
>
>>> These days, websites often have videos embedded as Flash objects from
>>> sites like YouTube (mostly) and Google Video (far less often).
>> what's good about that? (serious question)
>
> Watching a streaming video provides nearly-immediate gratification,
> whereas downloading a large AVI (esp over dialup... Melissa's mom,
> for example, is stuck with dialup at the moment) is not gratifying. :)
>
>
> <snip>
>> I wish i understood why it's worth the trouble--how come
>> putting videos up on a web page isn't good enough?
>> (serious question--why bother with flash?)
>
> Again, the instant gratification is one issue.
> Worse is fact that, once Melissa's mom had spent 
> who-knows-how-many-minutes
> downloading a video, she discovered that she couldn't even PLAY it.
> Codecs are a pain in the ass.  AVI is just a 'wrapper' file format,
> dontchyaknow. :^(
>
>
> -- 
> -bill!
> bill at newbreedsoftware.com
> http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
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