[opendtv] Re: Adobe in Push to Spread Web Video to TV Sets


"QuickTime in with Silverlight and Flash. Both of these compression
formats could run under QuickTime if Microsoft and Adobe CHOSE to
develop plug-in codecs for QuickTime. But this does not let THEM
control the end-user experience." Craig Birkmaier

 

 

It is my understanding that Flash is a wrapper like QuickTime is.  Both can hold h.264.  I have not researched SilverLight so I cannot speak to it.  Windows media is the most consistent in its codec use but might be considered a wrapper since it does have various codec flavors.  Of course, this doesn't negate Craig's point that any media player can theoretically be able to decode a competitor's codec or wrapper.

 

Dan Grimes

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