On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > > > > > > --- > () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org > > > > On Thursday, 05 January, 2012 08:30, Marshall Eubanks said: > > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > > > > > There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes? > > > > Now where would those be found, I wonder. All I have ever seen is > > > > macro- > > > > streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- the > > > > worst > > > > being something called FlashVirus, which was written by a company called > > > > MacroVirus Media or something like that, and currently owned and > > > > flogged by > > > > Adobe along with their "Proprietary Document Format" (the latest > > > > versions of > > > > which boast UVTD technology -- Unstoppable Virus Transport and > > > > Distribution). > > > > > > If the so-called video contains arbitrary executable code (or can run > > > > arbitrary executable code), or requires the use of a specific > > > > application to > > > > "play" (or infect the target), then it should not be described as > > > > "video". It is a streaming-macro. > > > > Is H.264 Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are > > the two reasonable open standard choices.)) > > Okay by me. Just no "Flash Video Streams" if you please. >
FWIW many of the big video hosting sites have this option now, and many send an appropriate format for the browser being used: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.dailymotion.com/html5 http://vimeo.com/blog:268 http://blip.tv/html5/ http://www.archive.org/details/Html5DemoVideo Alex
