arzuro wrote:Just look at it from a historical standpoint. Look at videos. VHS was vastly inferiour to Betamax, but Betamax had a dorky name so obviously VHS made the race. Check out those sweet acronyms. IYDYAFWSGTHAGSCIWBSAS, Baby.
Uh, the only reason that VHS beat out Betamax was because everyone collaborated on standardizing except for Sony, so their betamax was left out in the market.
And the only reason the org doesn't standardize their formats is because it would only benefit lazy people who don't know an encoder from their left hand.
Honestly, there is no other advantage besides making it easier for people who are new to downloading videos... and since the site's purpose isn't to entertain people but
catalog videos, that seems like a pretty crappy reason to standardize on one format- especially since the problems are wiped out as soon as people install the correct decoders.
And again, this isn't a market. Standardizing among commercial things such as cars and video cassettes makes sense, but standardizing for a format that hasn't even reached commercial status is rediculous. Most of these encoders are only a few years young... and don't have thousands of people working on the clock for them.
Encoders are different in the way that videos could be compressed differently from video to video. Standardizing an encoder among many types of art (animation, live action, computer generated three-dimension, and then some tricky aesthetic qualities like "noise") that only benefits the initial step and downgrades the rest of the work as a video editor (and in some cases, the viewer as well) is just plain foolish.
You can encode the video for avis with wmv9 using the official codec nowadays. And it's actually a very good codec.