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From: Tom Harrington on 10 May 2010 18:06
In article <1jiaby7.15b924o13539pqN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> I find conversion to .mov files to be monstrous size. I've just been
> converting flv to mp4 with Handbrake with a very modest increase. It
> just pisses me off that Apple forces us to do this rather than just play
> flv's. Thouught I might be missing something. I gather it's a politcal
> / marketing thing.

Technical, too. It's not Apple's fault that Flash sucks.

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Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
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From: Steve Hix on 10 May 2010 19:56
In article <1jiaby7.15b924o13539pqN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> I find conversion to .mov files to be monstrous size. I've just been
> converting flv to mp4 with Handbrake with a very modest increase. It
> just pisses me off that Apple forces us to do this rather than just play
> flv's. Thouught I might be missing something. I gather it's a politcal
> / marketing thing.

That, and flash performance, both speed and power consumption, at best,
sucks on hand/lap-held devices. This ignores the reliability and
security issues that come along for the ride.

What's worse is that Adobe has known all this for a long time, and have
been either unwilling or unable to do it right.
From: Howard Brazee on 10 May 2010 20:57
On Mon, 10 May 2010 09:38:22 -0500, pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul
Fuchs) wrote:

>Are there any good apps which allow one to play large .flv files? Also,
>they cannot be transfer to the itouch by syncing. I must convert them
>to mp4's first, a PITA and also makes them larger usually.

Streamclip plays them, but I haven't yet figured out how to convert
them to play on my iPod.

--
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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
From: Warren Oates on 11 May 2010 08:02
In article <100520101755351996%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> blame adobe, not apple.

Why? flv is as valid a container as mov or avi (or mkv).
--
Very old woody beets will never cook tender.
-- Fannie Farmer
From: nospam on 11 May 2010 13:24
In article <4be94741$0$14662$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, Warren Oates
<warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> > blame adobe, not apple.
>
> Why? flv is as valid a container as mov or avi (or mkv).

because it's flash, which is adobe's format.
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