Winston wrote:

.. Which reminded me that Flash video does not play well at all on my TiBook. However, if I download the video, it plays fine in QuickTime Player (or Miro or VLC, and probably several other players). ...

Winston wrote:
Is there a way to force Flash video to play using QuickTime in Safari?

j‌avascriptfunction%20()%20{var%20video_id%20=%20null;var%20video_hash%20=%20null;var%20video_player%20=%20document.getElementById(%27movie_player%27);if%20(video_player)%20{var%20flash_variables=video_player.attributes.getNamedItem(%27flashvars%27);if%20(flash_variables)%20{var%20flash_values=flash_variables.value;if%20(flash_values)%20{var%20video_id_match=flash_values.match(/video_id=([^(\&|$)]*)/);if%20(video_id_match!=null)%20video_id=video_id_match[1];var%20video_hash_match=flash_values.match(/t=([^(\&|$)]*)/);if%20(video_hash_match!=null)%20video_hash=video_hash_match[1];}}}if%20(video_id==null%20||%20video_hash==null)%20{var%20args=unsafeWindow.swfArgs;if%20(args)%20{video_id=args[%27video_id%27];video_hash=args[%27t%27];}}if%20(video_id==null%20||%20video_hash==null)%20return;var%20yt_mp4_path%20=%27http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id=%27+video_id+%27&t=%27+video_hash;var%20div_embed=document.getElementById(%27watch-player-div%27);if%20(div_embed)%20{div_embed.innerHTML=%27%3Cembed%20src=\%27%27+yt_mp4_path+%27\%27%20type=%22video/mp4%22%20width=640%20height=500%20scale=\%27aspect\%27%3E%3C/embed%3E%27;}})();

deckeda wrote:
Well, there's nothing wrong with Flash, just the way some people implement it. Flash is no worse than any other wrapper, regardless of your experience, my experience, everyone else's experience. This continued criticism has really gotten out of hand.

M A V I C wrote:
No, not really. There are multiple codecs that can be played in Flash, and not all of them are supported by QT.

I'd still really like to see an example of two identical videos encoded the same. I'm making my own but it would be easier to test this if I had some examples of what people are finding.