gravy wrote:Afaik Flash is in the works but not there yet
I find that hard to believe.
If I took a greater interest in my job then I could spout all sorts of industry gossip and tell you exactly why it's impossible... but I don't, so I'll have to make shit up instead.
I think there's still a tendency for people to hard-wire a limited set of codecs into their decoder chips (this is not sour grapes because they changed their supplier, honest). That limited set doesn't normally include Flash, and if it doesn't then it isn't supported and that's pretty much the end of it. I could rave at great length about patent law and licensing and what a filthy industry it is and why everything is so painfully incompatible because of it... but I need sleep.
I haven't kept up. What is the video decoder in the iPhone and latest iPods?
Also, Apple have gone too far with h.264, and they're really not big on going back on bad decisions. Their mouse
still has only one button -- they've even gone to the point of installing a shitty, dysfunctional touch sensor in there to try to gain baseline functionality without having to admit that
they really need more buttons.
aureole wrote:The lack of divX directly is probably enough reason for me to stick with my battered old Creative Zen (currently operating as a TV player in the lounge).
This fascinates me. You know that DivX is just re-badged MPEG-4, right? Do you have content where you're not prepared to strip out the DivX headers? Where does stuff like that come from?
your post does not compute 
