So, one of the formats I was looking at to do the video projects was obviously Windows media .wmv. This would be pretty much a no brainer as anyone with a Windows system would most likely have it and be willing to use it.

Windows media player buffers the file as it plays, so it will start to play quite quickly.

Here we go again, buffering…

I looked into the available options at some length a while ago when I was doing two video projects for clients.

At first I thought of the 2 most obvious options.

1. Windows media – wmv
2. QuickTime – Apple mov

Both of these would be acceptable because they at least buffered the file so it would start to play as it downloaded from the web server. Note: I was being asked to host these files. Neither client wanted to pay for a streaming media service. In fact, one of them did have a streaming media service and the front-end on it was, quite frankly, bloody horrible.

I’ve been studying the progress of video blogging recently. I’m really interested in this technology and am finding out more about it.

I did a couple of video projects for 2 customers a about 18 months ago. All of the videos were supplied to me by the client. I had to make them into suitable formats for download. I ended up doing 2 file types. Flash and Windows Media wmv.

What about QuickTime I hear you cry..

More on that in the next post.