Comments on: No One Likes Our Flash Video Codecs

By: DCHolth

DCHolth — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:20:13 +0000

Could you please elaborate on the ‘I’ve briefly been around Claire (stole the ho’s glowsticks at a club)’ story? Its gotta be good :)

By: Mike Britton

Mike Britton — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:06:11 +0000

I think it's going to happen. Quicktime has always been a mainstay of the high-end video production realm, and will continue to be. Flash rules web video. For now (tick....tick....).

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:13:38 +0000

I highly doubt Adobe dropped the ball. FLV isfairly ubiquitous and royaltyfree (providing you stick the to the proper codecs…)

My gut feeling is that it has more to do with Apple wanting to get more content playing on Quicktime rather than on Adobe Flash players. It’s a foregone conclusion that FLV practically owns the streaming video segment of the internet, a place that Quicktime has long since lost. Maybe Apple has plans to curb the propagation of FLV to it’s consumer devices to whatever extent that it can. We see this on the Apple TV product as well.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:37:58 +0000

I’m fairly conservative about these things, especially the first gen, but everytime the commercial comes on I am ready to sign up. Thank god for contracts ;)

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:28:17 +0000

it seems impossible to me that Flash content wouldn’t be supported eventually. Apple loves their Quicktime and will push it every chance they get, but they can’t deny the pervasiveness of Flash video on the web…it’s everywhere. And the same for application development, everyone knows AJAX is great for widgets but not ‘serious’ apps. No wonder devs are pissed. I think Flash/Flex support would appease them a bit and adding that support to the iPhone seems trival (but i could be wrong of course)

I believe both Flash and AIR will be supported on the iPhone based on these five things:
1. My gut feelings
2. The Flash Platform is an integral part of ‘web 2.0’
3. The non-answer JD received – the NDA runs deep for a reason
4. Both AIR and iPhone use WebKit
5. Jesse can’t be dead.

the iPhone won’t flop, but there will be the usual bitching about a first gen product. But overall I think it will still be a success and I can’t wait to get my hands on one.