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Video Format Comparison - Flash Video Format - WMV Format - Quicktime - Real

Tony Karrer

In The Rise of Flash Video - Tom Green tells us: This is not to say QuickTime and Windows Media are dead technologies. They aren't by a long shot, but when it comes to putting video on the web, the Flash Player has rapidly become the only game in town. Why has this happened?

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

True, the first images were in black and white, but the introduction of Quicktime a short time later let us play digital video from the hard drive. You needed to squint to see it, though, because the standard video window was only 160 x 120 pixels. .

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Mobile Flash?

AMVONET

Flash-based videos and games are often slow to load on mobile devices. And with all the games available in the Apple App Store, Apple device owners aren’t missing Flash games. It allowed consumers to play games directly within Web pages. But the reality of mobile Flash was much different than its promise.

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Solving the 'iPad Problem'

OpenSesame

Similar to the stage in Flash, the canvas allows developers to create everything from data visualizations to simulations to complex games. With HTML5 audio and video plays in the browser window itself– without the necessity of a plug-in like Flash or Quicktime. HTML5 has such a feature and it’s called the canvas. LocalStorage.

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eLearning 101: How to Make an eLearning Course

OpenSesame

There are lots of low-cost and free tools for screen capture and audio, including Camtasia , Quicktime and Screen Video Recorder. The eLearning Brothers have course templates and Flash-based game templates and DIY eLearning offers customizable Flash interactions, too. Teaching from software tools?

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HTML5—What’s the Urgency?

The Learning Circuits

Your company may choose to produce content in Flash or Silverlight or Quicktime and your desktop/laptop users will be able to access it as long as the company supports that technology, but when introducing new devices into the mix, your need for more widely-accepted technology will likely grow. And we need to have these conversations.

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Authoring Tool Market – What I am seeing

eLearning 24-7

Adding video via YouTube or mp4 or Quicktime or whatever has been in place for a long time. One vendor has a gaming raceway for quizzes. I remember pushing my pen around my paper in junior high creating a race game too. A few vendors include game templates – Yipee! I expect to see this to be another growth feature.