I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps.
What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.
Bob
Am 22.07.2011 14:34, schrieb Bob Goodwin:
I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps. What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.
no way to use any format all machines can play linux with nonfree-repos (VLC, ffmpeg) seems to be the only system which can play nearly all video-formats
H264/MP4 should be a godd choice in 2011, but WinXP is too dumb to play it out of theb ox without quicktime installed
apple perfers H264 but FLV only with VLC
On 22/07/11 08:39, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 22.07.2011 14:34, schrieb Bob Goodwin:
I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps. What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.no way to use any format all machines can play linux with nonfree-repos (VLC, ffmpeg) seems to be the only system which can play nearly all video-formats
H264/MP4 should be a godd choice in 2011, but WinXP is too dumb to play it out of theb ox without quicktime installed
apple perfers H264 but FLV only with VLC
I sent them a URL for VLC/Windows. One guy installed it and was quite pleased with the result, the video played. I'm not familiar with Windows but these are people for whom a computer is just another appliance so it must have worked automatically once installed?
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:34, Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin@wildblue.net wrote:
So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps.
What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.
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.
Windows Media Video is a propietary Microsoft format, and thus not used widely on the web.
Your best bet would be WebM, Google´s latest patent-free codec.
But your users would need to download and install the WebM codec to see it in Media Player.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/WebM-Codec-Plugin-for-IE9-and-Windows-Now-Off...
In the end, it´s all solved if you tell windows users to just download and install VLC Media Player (VideoLan).
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
It features internal codecs, and doesn´t need you to download and install codecs on windows, almost every format on earth is supported internally.
With that, you´ll be able to e-mail webM, flv, Xvid (avi), Divx (Avi) and users will be able to see all.
OR, you could convert videos before sending them using an open source application like www.winff.org
FC
2011/7/22, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com:
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.
True, but mplayer has no problem playing it.
Andras
On 07/22/2011 08:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps. What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.
Usually I don't bother to send folks a saved video...I just send them the link and let them watch it directly....
But, for saving youtube videos (I use Chrome) I have the "Download YouTube Videos as MP4/FLV" extension and pick MP4 which seems to be a very easy one for Windows to deal with.
On 07/22/2011 08:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/22/2011 08:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps. What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.Usually I don't bother to send folks a saved video...I just send them the link and let them watch it directly....
But, for saving youtube videos (I use Chrome) I have the "Download YouTube Videos as MP4/FLV" extension and pick MP4 which seems to be a very easy one for Windows to deal with.
Meant to add..... Firefox has the same addon.
On 22/07/11 08:54, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/22/2011 08:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/22/2011 08:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps. What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.Usually I don't bother to send folks a saved video...I just send them the link and let them watch it directly....
But, for saving youtube videos (I use Chrome) I have the "Download YouTube Videos as MP4/FLV" extension and pick MP4 which seems to be a very easy one for Windows to deal with.
Meant to add..... Firefox has the same addon.
I found an add-on DownloadHelper which seems to work and normally I would simply send the link, actually I don't normally bother with streaming video, but this morning tried it to see that the saved file was usable ...
Mpeg4 was an option, probably should have tried that.
Thanks,
Bob