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I am looking to change all my video's on different websites from the format .WMV to something else such as .MOV to be viewable on Linux system with Opera / ...
- 03-03-2007 #1Just Joined!
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Website Designer; What's best instead of .WMV ?
I am looking to change all my video's on different websites from the format .WMV to something else such as .MOV to be viewable on Linux system with Opera / Firefox / Konqueror. I want it to be viewable as well on Internet Explorer off-course as it is still the most popular (until people understand what is Vista
) but also on Mac. Would .MOV be the best move ?
Last edited by Xeor; 03-03-2007 at 01:40 PM. Reason: Misspealing
- 03-04-2007 #2Linux Guru
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That is a hard question. The problem is the widespread formats (wmv, mpeg, quicktime) are all proprietary and therefore are going to be issues in linux. Theora, the free/open source format is not on a lot of windows/mac computers. So I would go with mpeg as the best of the widespread formats. There are solid players on all formats.
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- 03-04-2007 #3Linux Enthusiast
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i would say mpeg also. For most people it will not require an extra download (like AppleQuicktime, which takes over your computer and is EXTREMELY hard to get rid of.)
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