ryanleber.com v.2.0 is up!

[Moss.]

*commencing thx phase
*thx
*thx phase complete

[Malson]

something other than quicktime please?!

otherwise your music section has been so incredibly inspiring i may just delve back into tabit

[Moss.]

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

It's free. Just download it.

[Malson]

It's also total BS. Why not convert to flash?

[SexualBubblegumX]

Uh doesn't Arlen have a Mac?

[Malson]

Uh flash is cross-platform.

edit: or even better, make a youtube account, upload the videos to that and then embed in your page.

[SexualBubblegumX]

I know it is, but the Mac thing might explain why he uses quicktime.

[Malson]

I'm not questioning why he uses it, I'm questioning why he's not using a more efficient alternative.

[Roph]

You could resort to quicktime alternative, which supports embedded QT stuff in firefox. Still, would prefer to have my PC clean of anything to do with quicktime, but ;/

[Moss.]

I'm not questioning why he uses it, I'm questioning why he's not using a more efficient alternative.

The Quicktime format was practically made for internet movies, Malson.
It's only not efficient because you don't want to download a tiny little application to run it.

[Moss.]

LOL Okay, so I just converted the video to flash to give it a try. It killed the quality, first of all, and second of all it won't play because, get this:

I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A PLUGIN TO PLAY IT.

So either way, you're going to have to download some little program to play it, even if you use flash.



Just download quicktime, Malson.

[Malson]

I'm not questioning why he uses it, I'm questioning why he's not using a more efficient alternative.

The Quicktime format was practically made for internet movies, Malson.
It's only not efficient because you don't want to download a tiny little application to run it.

it's not efficient because quicktime is one of the most intrusive and memory-hemorrhaging pieces of software I've ever encountered, actually. either way I took roph's advice and got quicktime alternative so it's all good now.

[Roph]

Even back in 1999, the install base of the flash player was 92 percent of all Internet users.

That page doesn't have newer numbers, and I can't be bothered to find them lol. Quicktime's is much, much lower.

You could encode a high or low quality quicktime movie just like you could encode a high or low quality flash movie, and if you encoded a flash movie FROM an already compressed quicktime movie it would be bad.

FLash 7 uses sorenson video, which is shit, but Flash 8's standard video format is Vp6, which is h.264 based. Quicktime is h.264 based also, so they're basically the same.

Flash is pretty much an internet standard, quicktime is not, no matter how much apple wishes it was.

I can't be bothered to write more lol, nor do I care, QT Alternative works ok.

[edit] [17:28] <Ego> Did you make sure to add that QuickTime player doesn't do anything unique?

[Moss.]

Well I already got rid of my source videos, so it's too late for that, lol.


It's strange, though, that I've never heard of .flv until like 2 weeks ago.

The only 'flash video' format I'd heard of was that, yes, very popular interactive video software thing. Which is not the same as a simple video.


And what unique thing do I need it to do? It's a movie player, I don't need it to be obnoxious and scream at me.

[Malson]

well it's still intrusive but QT Alternative nullifies that problem so debating is pretty much pointless now. At the very least, note that the videos require QuickTime and post a link to it (or the alternative, or both, lol. it's your site).

[Moss.]

Fair enough, I'll put a link in the links section for non-mac users.

[Moss.]

Even back in 1999, the install base of the flash player was 92 percent of all Internet users.

That page doesn't have newer numbers, and I can't be bothered to find them lol. Quicktime's is much, much lower.

You could encode a high or low quality quicktime movie just like you could encode a high or low quality flash movie, and if you encoded a flash movie FROM an already compressed quicktime movie it would be bad.

FLash 7 uses sorenson video, which is shit, but Flash 8's standard video format is Vp6, which is h.264 based. Quicktime is h.264 based also, so they're basically the same.

Flash is pretty much an internet standard, quicktime is not, no matter how much apple wishes it was.

I can't be bothered to write more lol, nor do I care, QT Alternative works ok.

[edit] [17:28] <Ego> Did you make sure to add that QuickTime player doesn't do anything unique?

Back in 1999, the flv file didn't exist as a standalone video file, it existed as a proprietary file you had to download Macromedia's Flash player to play. Flash Video (FLV) files have a .flv file extension and are used from within .swf files. And websites used swf's not because they used flv's, but because swf's were interactive and provided more options for web designers. These statistics you're pulling are flawed because they're not entirely based upon the popularity of flash video, they're based upon the obvious popularity of interactive flash websites.

FLV became a standalone format in 2007 (December) with Adobe's Flash Player 9 release, which explains why I've only heard of it recently. But as for a few months ago when I was making this website, I wasn't aware you could directly embed flash videos on a website. And for good reason, the format as standalone was only a few months old.

[Redwyn]

Arlen, I love your "Just Hold My Hand" midi, absolutely love it.

Great job <333

[haloOfTheSun]

I didn't notice this till now D: Awesome stuff. :3