"kglad" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> unless you're using, at least, one feature or improvement from flash 9/as
> 3, there's no reason to publish for flash 9/as 3.

> What codec are you using to encode your videos? On2VP6 is the better (i.e.
> smaller file size for same quality, or better quality for same file size),
> newer, codec. If you are encoding to this rather than the Sorenson codec,
> it
> requires >=FP 8 to run. Since the current FP version is 9, this would
> necessitate downloading FP9 for any current user of <=FP7
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> It's easy to become confused with this issue, as Sorenson publish software
> (Squeeze) that is very good for creating FLVs from other video formats,
> and
> they also wrote the earlier codec, 'Sorenson codec' that was used for all
> FP
> version prior to 8. Now, using Sorenson Squeeze you can also compress to
> the
> On2 VP6 codec - this is universally acknowledged as a better codec, but
> does
> of course necessitate the end-user having FP 8 or above installed.
>
> So, no, you don;t *have* to use Sorenson Squeeze, though I find it much
> better than the encode software released with Flash 8. I haven't seen CS3
> yet though.
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