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Originally Posted by BV
that's a waste of drive space IMO, (having both)
because Windows Media Player streams down-loadable wmv videos just fine
IMO the only reason to use streaming flash videos is for advertising, because the user needs to load the web page to view the video, and on that page you load up with advertising
also since they can't save the video, they can only bookmark THE PAGE and will have to revisit that page and send their friends to that page in order for them to see it = more pageviews
flash is way more valuable from an advertising standpoint than a high quality content delivery standpoint
what some people are calling Hi Def flash is not hi def, hi def = 720 pixels tall or 1080 pixels tall, you are not going to stream anything that large unless you have a serious cable modem 15mbs+
most of this so called HD streaming flash shit may have been shot with a HD camera but it's not HD when you re size it down small enough in order to stream it to the average user
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You should spend some quality time with H264 and the come back and revisit the topic... There's absolutely no reason to need a 15mbs+ connection speed for quality content.
Typically I offer WMV in a downloadable and streaming format... and H264 formatted directly for Iphones/Ipods/PSPs as well as high resolution for download or streaming through a flash player.
Oh yeah... I do clips and full length of each to... just to really waste space.
But here's the clincher... everything I make, gets dled or streamed. Every user has their preferences... I try to give everyone what they want/or at least are used to.
If you are seriously worried about wasting a few extra mbs on your server, time to check into a bigger better server setup or raid array...
