[haiku] Re: Topics for tutorial videos
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:46:00 +0100 CET
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Gavin James <gavin.james@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Bear in mind that even though these are tutorial videos the vast
> > majority of people will watch them first from their current OS for
> > the
> > purpose of finding out more about Haiku. I'm not saying the videos
> > shouldn't be playable on Haiku, just that you should cater to your
> > audience, and sadly that puts Flash right at the top of the list.
>
> I agree with this. It should not be too hard to make the videos in a
> Haiku-friendly format that would also work well on YouTube and
> similar
> sites. I might recommend H.264 since that can be turned into
> high-quality videos on YouTube. Though I don't know how well that is
> supported on Haiku. I am sure David McPaul or Stephan could say.
I'm not sure but it might be possible to actually have <embed> around
the flash stuff, to fall back to flash if it doesn't work...
Though I didn't try yet. It's possible a media player would be loaded
anyway even if it doesn't know the format...
François.
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