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  • Alex Gollner 3 months ago
    Given Adobe's lack of incentive in making non-Windows Flash plug-ins work at all efficiently (they aren't competing with another company that makes money from writing Flash plug-ins), I hope Vimeo is planning of dumping Flash.

    Apple will never allow Flash on the iPhone. They know that Adobe won't bother making it run well on anything but the fastest computers running Windows software. Flash is so 2007.

    Many Vimeo users now upload their videos in H.264 format. The problem is transcoding the 850,000 plus that were uploaded in other formats. It would take many months on a big expensive server farm (or large bits of Google's cloud) to convert them all.

    How about letting the users carry some of the load? Vimeo could supply a Javascript-based widget that could be used for browsing Vimeo. The difference with this new browser would be that it would also wait for low processor use on the PC or Mac it is running on and spend the spare processor cycles to pre-process some of the transcoding jobs that will convert all the original videos to H.264.
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