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Re: mov?
by Hannes Hauswedell on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @02:52

Please everybody get your facts straight!
The video is h264+aac+mov. These formats are partly covered by patents, but they ARE documented. It is absolutely possible to play the video with free software (no extra binary codecs required), mplayer and xine should play it out-of-the-box.

While I would have preffered an entirely free codec-combination like ogg, this is way better than flash, real media or windows media. Even the download link is provided...

Btw. kmplayer plays the video fine inside konqueror, if your browser doesnt play embedded video, well...

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Re: mov?
by moltonel on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @03:15

With all the video formats on the web, the problem is not the "video format" part (even though it is a strange twist of fate that FOSS people would ask for flash+flv over h264+aac+mov), it is the "on the web" part.

I have yet to see an embeded player (Free or proprietary, any platform) that's really nice to use and works all the time, whereas some desktop players are really good (and most will play any file you throw at them).

Conclusion ? Please please please allways provide a download link for the video. For sites like Youtube it's a business decision not to provide one, but for promotional material like this it doesn't make any sense. If the embeded player works fine for some people, that's cool. For all the others (technical problems, slow connection, repeated views, file sharing...), all we need is a download link and we'll be happy.

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Re: mov?
by Hannes Hauswedell on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @04:02

You did realise that there is a download link on the bottom of the page?

;)

Like I said, I use kmplayer embedded in konqueror. I have no w32codecs installed and I've never encountered a video that doesnt play with the free software codecs mplayer has.
Then again, I did build mplayer with support for "patented-but-free" codecs.

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