Tags: formats
Tags: formats
iPod friendly versions of Dvorak's troll confession
Posted Wednesday October 11, 2006, 4:21 am, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
Although Dave posted the video in QuickTime format using open codecs (JPEG video and 8-bit uncompressed audio), which should mollify Mark Pilgrim somewhat, the iPod Video won't play this. iPod compatible MPEG-4 version, using H264 codec - requires QuickTime 7, iTunes 6 or VLC 0.84
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Open formats revisited
Posted Wednesday October 11, 2006, 4:21 am, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
Mark Pilgrim has a thorough post explaining his move to open formats. [I spent] Years of creating content, most recently video content in iMovie. It is published and open, has been substantially the same for 15 years, and iMovie (finally) stores it's edit lists in it.
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A five point plan to save us from crappy Flash video
Posted Wednesday October 11, 2006, 4:21 am, Over one day old at Epeus' epigone
Now YouTube has Google backing, they can stop making us watch Flash video. GooTube, write a detection script, and give us MPEG4 quality if we have QT or another player installed. Google Video has nice MPEG4 versions, but they force you to download them completely and play later.
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