| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Andreas Wenk <a(dot)wenk(at)netzmeister-st-pauli(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, pgsql-general List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Video available for PGDay SJC '09 |
| Date: | 2009-07-28 13:30:25 |
| Message-ID: | 407d949e0907280630w16ea6648nb9cde001241a2a0f@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Andreas
Wenk<a(dot)wenk(at)netzmeister-st-pauli(dot)de> wrote:
> Bill Moran schrieb:
> > While I've no objection to someone helping out by converting files, I
>>
>> find it odd that flv is suggested. I've yet to find anything that can
>> play flv files on my FreeBSD desktop machine. I'm pretty sure mplayer
>> can play mov files ... I guess I'll find out this evening when I take
>> time to watch them.
>
> You will not need to watch them on your desktop. If your browser supports
> flash, then you simply watch them with your browser. I think flash (flv,
> swf) is more supported by the browser than mov - as long as you don't
> download the videos. For sure mplayer can play them. But why download them
> at all? ;-)
Why not use a standardized openly documented container format like
mpeg4 with mpeg4 part 2 compression instead of one controlled by a
single company like flv or quicktime? That would let people play it
using any of various open source codecs which can play mpeg4 part 2.
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