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Which Media Type To Use For Website Videos

I came across a couple of really good websites ( in my opinion at least ) which had video clips on their homepage. In all cases the sites had the individual appear in a video introducing their services. They were well done and impressed me. I did a little web-surfing and found out that you can embed these types of vidoes in your site using a number of different methods.

The question I have for any member familiar with this is which media type should I use. Nothing I have read is definitive about this, so I was wondering if anyone has had experience with Windows Media Player vs QuickTime vs Flash vs Real Media. The process seems straight-forward, it's determining which one might be better than the others.

Any insight would be really appreciated.

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Posted by Wayne McMullan Quinte Real Estate on 07/17/2007 04:12 PM

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4 Comments on Which Media Type To Use For Website Videos

JUL

2007

Flash is the most compatible - almost everyone can view Flash these days. It's also the worst quality. If you're just doing a talking head though, you should be fine. Flash falls apart when you start getting too much motion involved.

By far, the best quality is QuickTime. WMV is better than Flash, takes longer to download On my siteand buffer than Quicktime and is not as good in regards to quality.

It really depends on your application. If I was doing just a talking head video, I would use Flash. On my site, I do all three, with QT being the default as it is the best presentation. WMV is second, Flash third. You can easily compare the three formats in regards to quality.

Compatibility? FLash wins hands down. No question.

(YouTube, Google Video and all other sites, for the most part encode in Flash ,however they use the absolute WORST compression. If you're going to use Flash, encode it yourself using the On2 Professional Flash Encoder which will give you the best Flash output possible)