H.264 Web Player? (Other Than Quicktime)

[Piper]

I'm investigating various options for embedding a web based video player for purposes of streaming video off of my site. I have used Riva to encode sorenson .flv files, which works but I'd rather use x264 for better quality. The issue there is, the only web based player I've been able to find is to embed quicktime in the page. While it works, I'm not wild about using quicktime. So, are there any other web video players out there capable of playing H.264?

Another option would be to encode to DivX and use their player I suppose.

Thanks in advance.

[Sirber]

you could use flash which uses VP6, like on youtube.

[Piper]

On2's Flix Standard (http://www.on2.com/consumer/flixstandard/?sid=ECOG-A6GM-449848d069032&ref=) would be within reach at $39. I'll download the trial and see what knid of quality it produces. According to the site Flix Standard is limited to 1-pass however. Still, there's no way I can justify $249 fro the Pro version. I am of course assuming this is the only avenue for for VP6 encoding.

[bkman]

VLC has a web-browser plugin, doesn't it?

[Sirber]

VLC has a web-browser plugin, doesn't it?you can't force people to have VLC...

[smok3]

you can use 'real' flash for encoding, there is a 30 days trial version (or at least it was last time i checked).

for player you can use http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player (i did a lil php/javascript which will parse a certain 'movies' directory everytime it is loaded so the movies appear as a selection bellow the applet, let me know if you need the php code.)

[bond]

the guy asked about a h264 player, so no need to point him to on2/flash stuff

there is a java plugin for h264 webpage playback (user needs to install nothing) iirc :search:

[IgorC]

http://www.tcpmp.com/ Coming soon. This one is coming with the fastest decoders H.264 High Profile and all LC/HE1/2 AAC profiles.

[smok3]

IgorC, this does look cool, however iam not buying anything from core guys anymore for sure.
bond, the one in ibm's package or something else?

[DAvenger]

however iam not buying anything from core guys anymore for sure.


Why is that?

[bond]

bond, the one in ibm's package or something else?
nop e

[Lokean]

you can't force people to have VLC...
No, but you can't force people to have Quicktime, Flash or Windows Media Player either. By the way, I'm using mplayer-plugin on Linux (don't know if that's available for Windows) and that works just fine with x264.

[celtic_druid]

There's always Osmo4. Works fine here in FireFox and IE. Not tried it under linux. Once again you can't force people to install it and way less people would have it installed than even VLC. Does have one advantage though in that you can use mpeg-4 systems, 3D, etc.