[pmwiki-users] Best format for video

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 10:50:58 CST 2006


On 11/6/06, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:19, Tegan Dowling wrote:
> > A client has some video he's getting together to put on the site, and
> > wants to know what format he should use. Suggestions?
> Oh. Oh dear. That's a tricky minefield. I'd suggest looking into the MS
> variant of MPEG4. It's not as good as regular MPEG4, but plays on windows
> machines without hunting down extra codecs. Or consider a flash player
> perhaps.
>
> > The site is edit-protected, so it would be safe for me to enable html,
> > if need be. Apache server, if that matters.
> No matter what format you use, you'd probably be able to create a custom bit
> of markup that does the object/embed dance for files without much trouble.

Thanks, Robin!

Anyone have any other thoughts?




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