Re: lessig.org site supporting Adobe's proprietary Flash format

Lawrence Lessig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.fsf.uk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
there is a link on the site to download a theora version.
On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Jon Grant wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On 25/02/2008, Lawrence Lessig <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Actually, the file is available from the link on the site in mpeg
>> format,
>>
>> http://blip.tv/file/get/Lessig-5MinutesToWithdraw335.m4v
>>
>> and it can be downloaded, and we're building technology that
>> automatically converts it to theora.
>
> Great!
>
> Is there any reason why that MPEG video link not listed anywhere on
> the site though? Adobe's Flash is only view I see:
> http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html
>
> All I can see is a big Adobe Flash Error image at present when I just
> looked again.
>
> If you need to keep the Adobe Flash, perhaps you could display the
> first frame as an image, and then link to the MPEG file as the
> "default" view? With another link on the page for the propreitary
> Adobe Flash format version.
>
> Any thoughts on the MP3 query here? http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/
>
> Or the Apple Keynote/Apple Mac OS query?
>
> Thanks for the quick response,
> Jon
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