<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:34, Bob Goodwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobgoodwin@wildblue.net">bobgoodwin@wildblue.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":41h">So far two Windows users were<br>
unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be<br>
able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps.<br>
<br>
What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at<br>
least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.</div></blockquote></div><br>Flv (FLash Video) was meant to be played with a Flash based player, inside a browser. So it´s not a common codec to be played stand-alone.<br>
<br>Windows Media Video is a propietary Microsoft format, and thus not used widely on the web.<br><br>Your best bet would be WebM, Google´s latest patent-free codec.<br><br>But your users would need to download and install the WebM codec to see it in Media Player.<br>
<br><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/WebM-Codec-Plugin-for-IE9-and-Windows-Now-Official-190091.shtml">http://news.softpedia.com/news/WebM-Codec-Plugin-for-IE9-and-Windows-Now-Official-190091.shtml</a><br><br>In the end, it´s all solved if you tell windows users to just download and install VLC Media Player (VideoLan).<br>
<br><a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html</a><br><br>It features internal codecs, and doesn´t need you to download and install codecs on windows, almost every format on earth is supported internally.<br>
<br>With that, you´ll be able to e-mail webM, flv, Xvid (avi), Divx (Avi) and users will be able to see all.<br><br>OR, you could convert videos before sending them using an open source application like <a href="http://www.winff.org">www.winff.org</a><br>
<br>FC<br>