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Geek Culture / Embeded website videos: Flash or QuickTime?

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Hypno Screen
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Posted: 25th Sep 2006 03:34
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Well, as the title says:

I want to show preview videos of gameplay footage of my games on my website. What should I choose: Flash or QuickTime? I know a video->flash converter for about 40 euros that SEEMS to be quite good. Or I could go with QuickTimePro 7 for 30 Euro

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Megaton Cat
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I'd say quicktime seems to be the most common.

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Jrock
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I'd say Flash, but thats just my opinion.

Ok the mods got rid of my sig...
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the_winch
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I suspect if you are targeting window users a lot more have flash installed than quicktime.

By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.
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Luke314pi
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Posted: 25th Sep 2006 17:03
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I prefer Quicktime, but alot of sites are using Flash video now.


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Megaton Cat
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Flash is harder to steal/rip then Quicktime I suppose...though there are still a ton of ways to do it.

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Kentaree
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Yea,but nearly everyone has flash installed, you'll also be able to watch it on other operating systems. While quicktime is readily available on mac and windows, it's not widely supported for other OS'es like linux

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spooky
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Flash is widely accepted now and installed on most peoples pcs/macs/etc and flash 8 is great for embedding video apparently.

Quicktime is a bit naff on the PC in my opinion and you have to download an installer for it, rather than a simple plugin for your browser.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Flash is easy to rip... flash grabbers can be gotten from pretty much anywhere...


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Jeku
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I prefer Flash videos by 10x. It's fast and easy to start watching. Use QuickTime only if you want high quality.


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Zappo
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I went to a Flash conference a while ago and they wreckoned that about 96% (or something like that) of browsers now come with the Flash plugin out of the box. Especially now there are portable versions for smart phones and PDA's.
Quicktime has always been a pain for me. Its a big download, a big install and it has a habit of sticking things in your task bar.
At the moment Flash is a very small download and just works. Of course, now that its owned by Adobe things may change and it may end up like Acrobat, but I really hope not.
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dark coder
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Flash ftw!, I really hate quicktime, and I only have it cause some sites seem to require it, first you must specify that you don't want itunes, 'cause if I wanted that I would goto that page right??, then once you've signed up for there spam service(or entered a fake e-mail) you can download it, yey? then it dumps itself onto your quickstart/desktop/blah blah, though I don't recall the options to stop it saving itself everywhere, then it likes to delete my sydnie font, and finally I can view .mov files! ofcourse with a splashscreen first...

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indi
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any serious website would have HIgh Medium and Low variants of WMP and QT, plus if your keen flash.

Compressor and Media Cleaner Pro will also allow you to export a podcast version and a 3g mobile version. So will Quicktime Pro.

I would for quality and size go with H264 format. it literally blows them all away in filesize and quality.

I only recently exported a clients flash file to a 32 million 10 bit 4:2:2 44khz 16 bit 300 meg uncompressed video file in AVI and MOV for television, as well as supplying them with a podcast and a 3g mobile file.

your website logs will also give you an opportunity to see the most commonly used platform for the videos if you set it up right.

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Agent Dink
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I personally hate Quicktime (and of course my stupid digital camera has to save videos as .MOV files, grrr). On websites, go with flash in my opinion.

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H4ck1d
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Ditto on the flash, quicktime seems to have really long load times...

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