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Video Wars
By Jens C. Brynildsen
There has been many
'wars' on the web. All versions of Netscape now
account for less than 10% of the browser market.
Microsoft won The Browser War by massively
outnumbering the competitors. Now its time for the
battle of streaming video. Outnumbering is once
again the key and Flash MX will be the winner.
The Players
Microsoft with its Windows Media Player has fought a
long battle against QuickTime and RealPlayer. They
are fighting for a huge market where the biggest
money can be made on controlling the content and
streaming video to the end user. These three
companies have spent huge amounts of money on their
technologies. Media Players need constant updates
and often depend on licensed properties such as
compression algorithms and codecs. This is an
expensive process and return on investment is next
to none unless you see this as a marketing effort
and a way to control the content delivered. Both to
Apple, Real and Microsoft, their Media Player
technologies have probably been expensive ventures.
The market for streaming video may be big in theory,
but it has been a very expensive market for many.
One of the reasons has been that there is no simple
way to ensure that all users will be able to see the
content. If your website lives from selling
streaming video, you cannot afford to lose a
customer due to lack of the right Media Player
technology.
To safe-guard themselves, sites with streaming video
have encoded their content in a variety of formats.
Visit just about any streaming video site and they
will offer at least two formats, usually Windows
Media Player and QuickTime. The biggest sites, even
offers all three formats. Converting video to these
formats is a time consuming process and anyone that
could save money by just encoding to a single format
would do it. This will be possible within the end of
this year.
Why will Flash be the winner of the video wars? The
ease of installing the player is just one of many
good reasons.
RealPlayer
The RealPlayer has always been part of the Netscape
Browser, but with Netscape loosing the Browser War,
the potential for Real has diminished. The
RealPlayer was one of the first technologies that
really enabled streaming video on the web. When the
DotCom age came to an end, Real quickly started
charging money for a Pro-version of their player.
They also made it constantly harder to find the free
player on their web pages. In addition, they have
desperately tried to gather email addresses to use
for unwanted junk mail and the whole player is
cluttered with advertising.
The RealPlayer had a competitive advantage with the
support of the SMIL authoring language, allowing far
more than just video. Real failed to develop good
tools for creating SMIL files and the format never
took off.
The last time I tried to download RealPlayer, I
couldn't find the free version at all. This will be
the death of the RealPlayer. If you have any shares
in this company, get rid of them them as quickly as
possible. Without an easily available, free
alternative, the RealPlayer will die and it will be
the first to lose against Flash MX video
capabilities.
Windows Media Player
The Windows Media Player has always been big, though
its only the latest versions that have successfully
been able to stream big video files correctly.
Earlier versions had serious problems predicting the
actual connection speed and this caused the video to
start before the player could play it back without
problems. The reason for its reach is obvious. With
almost 90% market share for their Operating Systems
one would almost expect a similar share of the Media
Player Market.
There may be many reasons that Windows Media only
has 70% market share. Our guess is that many won't
upgrade their systems in fear of the OS crashing.
The fact that Microsoft never has managed to create
a media player for any other OS may also be part of
the problem.
Both the Windows Media Player and the RealPlayer are
fighting a parallel war against other audio players
like WinAmp and Sonique and they are both mainly
video/audio playback technologies, while Apples
QuickTime has got some extra aces up its sleeve.
QuickTime
QuickTime can do more than just play back video.
Apple has positioned the QuickTime Player well, as
it can playback 3D objects, VR Panoramas, still
images, video and it can even play back Flash-files.
In addition, the Pro version of the player can be
used for editing and authoring content for the web.
Apple seems to be the only company taking the threat
from Flash seriously, as they have recently sued
Sorenson, the makers of the video compression inside
Flash MX.
QuickTime is maybe the best program for video on the
web and they are the ones with the most to lose. If
you want to see trailers for new movies, there's
hardly any better place to go than the Apple
website. Apple have been fighting a uphill battle in
distributing the QuickTime Player and they have
still not reached more than a 37% market share.
Flash has always been lightweight and good content
is the reason that people install the latest version
of the Flash Player. With Flash now being able to
play back high quality streaming video, this will
change video on the web forever.
Installing the Flash Player is easy. Even my mom has
installed a Flash Player, but she would never
install any of the other Media Players. Why? She is
connected to the web with a 56Kb modem and the
Windows Media Player is a 10Mb download. In
addition, the install process is way too complicated
for her, but clicking the Yes-button to quickly
download and install the Flash 6 Player is easy.
The current download rate are more than 3 million
players per day and more than 460.000.000 Flash
players will be slowerr, but Macromedia have many
years of statistics to back their numbers.
The new tools
With this week's release of the Macromedia Flash
Communication Server MX, Flash MX will not only be
able to stream video perfectly and easily. It will
also open a whole new era of communication on the
web. The MX Communication Server will enable real
time presentations and video conferencing, things
tried but never really used in the mass market. This
is good news to anyone selling bandwidth as it will
massively increase the capacity used by web servers.
Video conferencing with MX promises high quality
with no setup required. Its just there and its
working, right off the web page. Forget big
downloads and software problems, this is really
going to change the web. Not over night, but slowly
and steadily.
Macromedia has made a host of components for the MX
Communication Server. Authoring these applications
in Flash MX will be an easy process, more or less
using drag and drop components and then connecting
these with a few lines of code. Just imagine
shopping on Amazon.com and seeing a button saying
'click here to talk to a customer representative'.
After clicking, a video window pops up with a real
person there to assist you in buying the goods you
want. This can really enhance the online buying
experience and boost sales.
Flash MX has only got one compression codec,
Sorenson Spark, while the other Media Players have
many codecs to choose from. This might seem like a
big advantage, but most of these are legacy codecs
that are there just to ensure backward compatibility
with old video clips. Flash will not need to bother
about such. The Spark codec is highly optimized for
the web and just as good as the best available (if
not better).
MX a daring strategy
With the massive investments made by the other
players, will they just sit and watch their market
share disappear? Their biggest problem is that the
traditional, huge Media Players are only updated if
a user is desperate to watch video. The Flash Player
on the other hand is a very much desired download
for end users and all the great content it is used
for, will guarantee its distribution. If you don't
need to sacrifice stability, get loads of junkmail
or download big programs, you will not do it. If you
make a living from streaming video and Flash is the
most widespread plugin, you'll use it. It's actually
that simple.
The momentum for Flash MX is massive and with more
than 1 million developers, it will spread quickly.
Macromedia is partly dependant on both Microsoft and
Apple to distribute the Flash Player, but none of
these will distribute new versions of their OS in
the near future. If any of these dislike Flash
taking over, Macromedia could get some short term
distribution problems. Will they protest Flash
taking over? We doubt it. All the players will
probably coexist. The Flash Player has no desktop
playback (for now) so this domain will still belong
to the traditional Media Players.
Note::
Macromedia has now (in a beta version of the player)
added support for reading ID3-tags within the Flash
player. This will enable just about any Flash
developer with above average skills to create fancy
looking MP3-Players, complete with song info, skins,
irregular shapes that are partly transparent on the
desktop. This should boost the adoption rate for the
new player even more and with the new Intel P4
optimizations playback will be even faster.
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