This may step ahead of many of us technologically, but I found it very helpful to know. You may want to know it, save it, or pass it on to a person who might work with it.

In the first ever edition of Christian Video Magazine, Augstin Moore, president/owner of Streaming for Jesus, wrote an article praising the benefits of streaming video in flash.

As a proud new owner of not one, but TWO Mac computers (ok, I only OWN one, the other is my work computer), this rang true for me. To boil it down and highlight the parts that will make sense to the less tech savvy, basically flash is a fairly universal player. If you're used to using Windows, you have probably watched some kind of video in Windows Media Player. You can also get players like QuickTime and Real Player for your PC. Mac comes pre-installed with QuickTime. Then there's Linux, another operating system with it's own settings and capabilities. Flash can be used directly in a web browser on ALL of these.

Moore also explains how it saves time as the file only needs to be saved as one file type for all users.

His explanation is much more in depth, so I suggest if you are to the point of putting video online that this might be an important article to read.