Comments on: Flash or Windows Media Player? http://www.fonzo.biz/2006/02/21/flash-or-windows-media-player/ Tech, Culture, Music and Macintosh. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:01:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Fonzo http://www.fonzo.biz/2006/02/21/flash-or-windows-media-player/#comment-116 Fonzo Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:35:41 +0000 http://www.fonzo.biz/2006/02/21/flash-or-windows-media-player/#comment-116 OK. One vote for Flash. I completely forgot about the iTunes / Real Player crowd, which, is pretty odd. I say odd because I myself do not use WMP. I use iTunes for audio and VLC for anything video related. Hmmm. You are probably right about "more people [having] Flash than [I] think" part. Also, doing Flash would probably inconvenience the least amount of people overall. But there is just something about asking / forcing my readers / viewers to install third party software that makes me go "hmmm." Is there a way to do all this within PHP without the use of third-party apps? OK. One vote for Flash. I completely forgot about the iTunes / Real Player crowd, which, is pretty odd. I say odd because I myself do not use WMP. I use iTunes for audio and VLC for anything video related. Hmmm.

You are probably right about “more people [having] Flash than [I] think” part. Also, doing Flash would probably inconvenience the least amount of people overall. But there is just something about asking / forcing my readers / viewers to install third party software that makes me go “hmmm.”

Is there a way to do all this within PHP without the use of third-party apps?

]]> By: MrCorey http://www.fonzo.biz/2006/02/21/flash-or-windows-media-player/#comment-115 MrCorey Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:50:41 +0000 http://www.fonzo.biz/2006/02/21/flash-or-windows-media-player/#comment-115 I recommend the flash approach. More people have Flash than you think. It loads faster than WMP as well. BTW, I'm visiting in Windows and I don't have WMP installed (I know its under there, but I DID say NO!) and, as such, the Real Player plugin doesn't always work in Firefox for me and I have to load Windows Media url's in the standalone Real Player. But that's my choice. I bet that I'm not alone. I recommend the flash approach. More people have Flash than you think. It loads faster than WMP as well. BTW, I’m visiting in Windows and I don’t have WMP installed (I know its under there, but I DID say NO!) and, as such, the Real Player plugin doesn’t always work in Firefox for me and I have to load Windows Media url’s in the standalone Real Player. But that’s my choice. I bet that I’m not alone.

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