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by Herring 5936 days ago
It seems like we went through this in the 90s with wmv/quicktime/etc. I can't recall why it failed & I'm not sure why it should be better this time around.
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blasdel 5936 days ago
Because there's a single, vendor-neutral, scriptable, unbranded API: <video>
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GHFigs 5936 days ago
I'm not sure why it should be better this time around.

Because today instead of WMV/QuickTime/etc. we have H.264/H.264/Flash (which streams H.264).

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kinetik 5936 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services#St...

I see a lot of VP6 and Sorenson listed there. What we really have today is Flash/Flash/Flash. I'm curious about how much VC-1 use there is in the wild in the large Microsoft/Silverlight streaming video installations.

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