RE: Bye bye Windows Media Player for Mac!

That’s great, but useless unless you can also tell the list how to EMBED it in a page in a way that works with whatever player happens to be installed.

 

BTW, this can be done (with some caveats), and it’s an excellent idea, and it’d be interesting to work with somebody on it.

 

This would be a good way to provide some sort of video experience even if the user hasn’t downloaded anything for five years.

 

 

MPEG-1 installed by the OS on both Mac and Windows since 1997 or so. Supported by all major Linux media players. Supports HD decoding on P3 class hardware. No royalties on content. No royalties for decoder software.

 

That’s great, but useless unless you can also tell the list how to EMBED it in a page in a way that works with whatever player happens to be installed.

                                            

Without that, MPEG-1 is as player-specific as any format.

 

— Charles