Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Feb 2008 21:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
"The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no widespread DRM standard for Flash or Flash Video formats; indeed, most sites that use these formats simply serve standalone, unencrypted files via ordinary web servers. Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software."
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Whilst the file may be smaller the processor requirements to decode that file are, probably, much higher. It actually depends which level of H264 one uses. There are "lo-def" versions of the specification. More advanced uses (backwards and forwards prediction capabilities, key frame abilities and lots of complex motion prediction stages plus a more complex bit encoding technique) will require more compute power and storage.
There is a trade off to be made. The more compression applied to a signal, whilst resulting in a drop in bandwidth required for transmission, necessitates an increase in compute bandwidth at the decompression end. The third dimension on this graph would be signal to noise ratio.