RE: online movies

I agree.  Myself if a client just wants one format we do realplayer.  If
they want two I will do realplayer and windows media.  Personally I like
windows media but it costs more to use.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of Mike Taylor
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:36 PM
To: Shawn Sass
Cc: hwg techniques
Subject: Re: online movies


You're going to get a lot of varying replies because (SURPRISE!) there
is no standard, per se.  

Some people like to stream videos using RealPlayer, because it
supposedly is more widespread and has been around a while.

Some people will say you can't beat Quicktime in overall quality (take
its use on adcritic.com, for example

There are scores of other formats, but some things to consider:

1. Who is your primary audience?
2. What type of connection speed most of these users have?  Do you want
to support only one speed (example: broadband) or do you want to design
for the 28.8 modem user as well? 3. Is picture quality more important
than sound quality?  Some media streaming will produce a "slide show"
effect instead of true motion video if the user's connection is too
slow.

Once you've evaluated these questions, you can then move on to comparing
the various media types and choosing one that's right for you.

Mike 

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shawn Sass wrote:

> 
> Hello list,
> 
> Could you fill me in on what the "standard" for viewing videos online 
> is. Last time I looked into it mpeg3??

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