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[18/12/2009] Why flash is great for audio and video players on website?
Flash is known to work well for websites that need to showcase audio and video players. The recent version of Flash has allowed a more controllable interface through its programming. It has been a great competitor of HTML when it comes to building more interactive applications and websites like an e-commerce store that is quite popular nowadays. If you are planning to post videos and audios on your website, Flash would be better to use than HTML for a number of reasons.One of the reasons is that flash allows movies to load faster. It means the online user could save time in browsing your website and in downloading video or other files. This is because Flash is vector-based, in contrast with HTML. Also, Flash ‘caches’ the movies thus the page need not to be reloaded. Flash gives out a rich-client experience since it offers more features.
Flash is indeed a breakthrough for website owners and developers. But if you have plans of keeping the video files uploaded under your own server for privacy and efficiency reasons, please read the following points.
Do not embed your AVI, MPG or WMV files directly to the website. There is a need to convert the video files into FLV format. This would allow the site visitors to watch the video while it is still being downloaded.
Flash player is actually supported by almost 90 percent of the known browsers such as Firefox, Opera, MSIE, and Safari. Meanwhile, WMV file format videos could only work on MS windows.
A Windows Media Player could be embedded on your website, but it is an ActiveX component that could not be supported by all of the browsers. Therefore, the page could load very slow.
If you wondering about the format of video on video websites like Google Video, YouTube and Yahoo Video, they are flash stream video. If you have .mpeg, .wmv, .mov and .avi.
In using Adobe flash software, web developers can explore more of the features. They can design their own player interface.
Flash is indeed a great addition to your website. It can help attract more online users. This can be very advantageous on the part of website owners who want impress their target audience. Through flash, videos or audio files could be embedded on your website.
