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  Re: Short code competition #5 - bring it on!  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 27 Nov 2007 14:41:31
Message: <474c72eb$1@news.povray.org>

> I have an idea that may or may not be useful.  Perhaps instead of Quicktime
> movies, you might consider flash animation.  I've been playing around with
> png2swf and some advantages seem to be that it encodes really fast, the
> animation is lossless, and its well supported on most peoples' browsers.  I did
> a test of 100 400x300 png images generated by POV-Ray, and the resultant swf
> file was about 118k, so I don't think size would be a big problem.  Encoding
> that file took about 2 seconds.
> 
> Just a thought.

No, both QuickTime and Flash are proprietary and crap. Having Flash 
seems like a good idea, as an *extra* apart from a standard format like 
MPEG2 or MPEG4.
Or Ogg/Theora if you want to go the open-but-not-quite-supported route.


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