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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2005-11-15
That's a good way to cause compatibility problems. Sometimes your video plays in QuickTime, sometimes Totem, sometimes not at all. The HTML5 video tag may fix this problem if it ever gets deployed.
Meanwhile, a Web page author can ensure that the behavior is consistent by specifying a particular player.