[opendtv] Re: Adobe in Push to Spread Web Video to TV Sets
- From: Kon Wilms <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:26:51 -0700
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Flash has a significant player toolbox to support audio, video and 2D
> animation, but it is not a toolbox like QuickTime that provides support for
> inter-format conversions, nor does it allow third parties to add their own
> plug-ins, including codecs.
Flash media encoder can encode vp6 or h.264 for video and place it in
a FLV transport wrapper.
Flash media server can server these files *but* it can also serve MP4
and MOV files.. to Flash Player.
> Silkverlight uses a wrapper format that is part of the Silverlight "open
> source" project.
Silverlight is the equivalent of flash player. It can play streams
from Windows Media Server which are usually WMV files, *but* Microsoft
has released 'smooth streaming' (seek-based progressive download,
basically) which allows one to stream MP4 and H264 based content from
IIS to Silverlight (2.x).
The open source Silverlight project is a byproduct of cooperation
(monetary compensation cough) between MS and Novell. Unfortunately
it's only in the 1.x phase so it is behind. It is not completely open
source either. And the open source community is still weary to adopt
because it is based on Mono which is the 'open source' 'version' of
the MS .NET CLR. They take this stance because they (rightly so) don't
trust Microsoft's ulterior motives.
Cheers
Kon
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