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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
There's still a lot of folks making FLV. For all the "Flash has 98% penetration" claims Flash 10 penetraion is well below that. FLV works in Flash 8+, and so has a longer tail, particularly in the enterprise.
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Perhaps you meant that Flash
9 has well below 98% penetration (true, but over 90%), and that FLV has worked since Flash
6?
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
It is also asserted, although I haven't seen any actual numbers to back this up, that the low-complexity VP6-E version is easier to decode on older machines than H.264, even baseline profile. That said, I'm not sure if theyr'e comparing at equal bitrate or equal quality; I'd think a good Baseline encode would be quite a bit more efficient, saving some CPU in lower bandwidth at the same quality.
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Have you ever used the FLV/VP6 decoders in Flash? They're horrifically inefficient.