Lizenzen bringen Probleme

Allerdings soll es bei diesem Codec in Zukunft einige lizenzrechtliche Probleme geben und die Suche nach Alternativen ist die einzig vernünftige Lösung.

Die Zukunft

Bei modernen Browsern der neuen Generation wie Google Chrome, Firefox 4, IE9, etc. ist ein Audio- und Videoplayer bereits integriert, um das Video-Tag einzubinden. Das Format WebM mit dem VP8 Codec ist bereits gut unterstützt.

Google ist sogar einen Schritt weitergegangen und hat H.264 direkt rausgeworfen und setzt nur noch auf VP8. Bei Youtube wird ebenfalls alles dahin codiert und abgelegt. Somit ist der Trend scheinbar festgelegt.

Press play on tape

Das Abspielen innerhalb der oben genannten Browser funktioniert bereits. Einfach die Videodatei mit dem Browser entweder über das Menu öffnen oder per Drag und Drop reinwerfen. Auch andere Wiedergabeprogramme wie VLC zeigen die Inhalte einwandfrei.

Encodieren

Leider gibt es auf dem Mac mit OS X 10.6.6 noch keine native Unterstützung, doch es gibt eine sehr bequeme Methode für Quicktime 7 Pro. Einfach das Paket WebM Component Installer.pkg installieren und schon kann man im WebM-Format exportieren.

Ein kurzer Test mit dem VP8 Codec hat sogar noch kleinere Dateien als mit H.264 Codec erzeugt – allerdings muss ich das erst noch genauer unter die Lupe nehmen.

But it is not that free I have expected to get it. You need to enter your Live ID to receive the serial keys and to get the end link for the leech.

Begginning to write this article I put my Live ID userdata in and I am still watching the green spin wheel letting me authenticate. I am afraid, this could take another while.

But after all let’s see if Microsoft has learned something and what got else copied by Apple.

Update:

Taking the Firefox browser instead of Safari took me to the download almost immediately. I tested it out several times, it looks like deceitful blocking.

Internet Explorer Tester

If you are programming or designing online content, then you always have the same problem as me:

Does the site look good and work on any browser?

The best way to find out, is of course to install all those browsers. In my opinion it is important to check at least the damn Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. On the Mozilla engines almost everything works fine, because the interpret the W3C standards much better.

But the big difference is the damn Internet Explorer. You have to check for the versions, because 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 (beta) do all react different. Unfortunately, most people having a damn PC are using the damn Internet Explorer, because they are to noob or to lazy to install something better.

The next problem is, that you can not have multiple versions of the damn Internet Explorer installed on one Windows operating system.

For that instance I found a very nice free Windows tool called IE Tester. You can open a tab for the specified browser version and compare to others.

Long URL Firefox add on

In the internet nothing will work without URLs. Everybody has at least heard once about the “http://” – thing and is often called just a link.

It links to a special recource like HTTP, FTP or local installed applications using a internet connection for example

• Skype (callto://dj_n4cer)

• Edkonkey (ed2k://%7Cfile%7CSUSE.LiNUX.10.0-retail-boxed-dvd-duallayer.part1.Nhipcau.net.rar%7C4030000000%7CAA6 1774DDD0E6B233BBBA46923C0DF04%7C/)

URL is a short term for Uniform Recource Locator. They are following a standardized formatting rule so that they will work everywhere at anytime.

But URLs can get very long, because it directs the server to a special path if a slash is following. If there are more slashes, then it goes into a deeper level, i. e.

• http://www.server.com/userblog/blog/archive/articles/2008/12/01/this-is-an-article-about-long-and-short-urls.

This is convinient to read, but not convinient to type, especially on a mobile device. For that reason there are numerous services providing you short URLs like

• http://kurl.de/abc342

which is definitely easier and faster to hack into a phone keyboard. In real, if you open this URL, it redirects you to the original one.

It is often used at Twitter, where you have a limited available amount of characters. Some free suppliers are:

• TinyUrl.com
• Kurl.de
• metaMark.net

But the big disadvantage is, that you do not know where it leads to before you open it.

If want to know the truth in time you may use the Firefox Plugin Long URL please.