Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

Thu Jan 5 20:57:02 UTC 2012

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
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> > On Thursday, 05 January, 2012 08:30, Marshall Eubanks said:
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> > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
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> > > > There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes?
> > > > Now where would those be found, I wonder.  All I have ever seen is macro-
> > > > streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- the worst
> > > > being something called FlashVirus, which was written by a company called
> > > > MacroVirus Media or something like that, and currently owned and flogged by
> > > > Adobe along with their "Proprietary Document Format" (the latest versions of
> > > > which boast UVTD technology -- Unstoppable Virus Transport and Distribution).
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> > > > If the so-called video contains arbitrary executable code (or can run
> > > > arbitrary executable code), or requires the use of a specific application to
> > > > "play" (or infect the target), then it should not be described as
> > > > "video".  It is a streaming-macro.
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> > Is H.264 Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are
> > the two reasonable open standard choices.))
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> Okay by me.  Just no "Flash Video Streams" if you please.
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FWIW many of the big video hosting sites have this option now, and
many send an appropriate format for the browser being used:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
http://www.dailymotion.com/html5
http://vimeo.com/blog:268
http://blip.tv/html5/
http://www.archive.org/details/Html5DemoVideo

Alex