Comments on: Newteevee interviews Steve Chen http://theutubeblog.com/2007/11/15/newteevee-interviews-steve-chen/ an unofficial blog on YouTube + the video file sharing industry Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:12:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Roger Benningfield http://theutubeblog.com/2007/11/15/newteevee-interviews-steve-chen/#comment-59886 Roger Benningfield Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:19:28 +0000 http://theutubeblog.com/2007/11/15/newteevee-interviews-steve-chen/#comment-59886 Unless they decide to do multiple Flash transcodings for each upload, switching from Flash 7's Sorenson codec to Flash 8's On2 codec will lock some folks out. Wii users would no longer be able to use YouTube. Linux users would be out in the cold. Basically, any non-Windows, non-Mac platform would be out of luck, thanks to the closed nature of Adobe's Flash player. Given YT's goal of being the lingua franca of web video, throwing out even a small subset of the audience would seem counter-productive. Unless they decide to do multiple Flash transcodings for each upload, switching from Flash 7’s Sorenson codec to Flash 8’s On2 codec will lock some folks out. Wii users would no longer be able to use YouTube. Linux users would be out in the cold. Basically, any non-Windows, non-Mac platform would be out of luck, thanks to the closed nature of Adobe’s Flash player.

Given YT’s goal of being the lingua franca of web video, throwing out even a small subset of the audience would seem counter-productive.

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