Comments on: The Web is Broken v.01

By: Chrome: Keeping it Simple, Stupid at aleatory

Chrome: Keeping it Simple, Stupid at aleatory — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:02:46 +0000

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By: Dazzajay

Dazzajay — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:41:23 +0000

Nope, as far as i know, all stupid Web-Video sites Use the Terrible Flash.

But i must say, Red Vs Blue (a Halo 2 Machinima group) Used a Flash Player, but got it to play .MP4
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 480×270 [Video]
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 1411Kbps [Audio]

and you know what, it looked brilliant.

Which goes to show that you CAN use other formats thru these idiotic flash players, hust most places like youtube dont want to.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:01:23 +0000

Strong opinions! While I’m surprised the negative feedback on this news isn’t greater given the woeful inability to keep Google Talk current – “There are no plans right now to add video to Talk” – I guess it shows how much fanboy crap there is being pushed out onto the web these days. Go to any blog search site and try to find a negative post on this. I could only find the link in the post above, and it’s not really a blog in the strict sense.

Re YouTube, are there any alternatives on the web right now that don’t rely on Flash?

By: Dazzajay

Dazzajay — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:17:09 +0000

I wouldnt bother switching to Skype either, its broken also.
It uses YOUR BANDWIDTH to relay OTHER PEOPLES calls, and theres no way to stop it. it wastes your bandwidth, and is Slow as a wet month. Ever tried Playing an Online game while its Relaying somone elses call…. Ping going from 16 to 16000 every few seconds. Its completley retarded.

I myself can run a Lot of Youtube tabs open in firefox (Not that i do because Flash video is crap)
Which brings me onto a Second Point: Flash Video = Crap.
For the SAME FILESISE and BITRATE as one of these tiny, Blurry videos on Craptube, you can get DVD QUALITY XviD.
What kind of idiot would use somthing as inferior as Youtube is beyond me. Frankly, i can stand it, because every time i want to watch somthing, i have to load a Slow loading video, that is Bluury as crap, and has Terrible audio quality, and if i want to watch it again a few days later, I HAVE TO RE DOWNLOAD IT.
What the hell happened to Just Downloading a good Quality video, and watching it over and over in good quality?
Youtube Killed it.

Now, back to Google Talk.
Frankly, i couldnt give a rats arse about Emoticons, as IMO they are completley pointless, and a waste of resources (yes i know, not much resources)
But, as for Group Voice Chat, and Video Chat, they are NEEDED in the app, as having them in the Site only is Complete Shit. Slow, laggy, Annoying to NEED to leave browser open all the time, Crap.

Google need to get off their arse and Fix this crap.

Dont let Gtalk be like Chrome (a complete failure)
FIX IT BEFORE IT GETS THAT WAY.

and thats the end of my /rant.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:13:41 +0000

Completely agree. I went from Skype TO Google talk because of the simple interface, and it not being bloated with useless crap like smilies etc, that and Skype refused to do what I told it to, oh and also it used my bandwidth to relay other people’s calls and file transfers, not cool.

Google need to pull their finger out and do some updates to the google talk client.

Why is everything moving towards being completely web-based? It’s completely and utterly pointless. Oh and don’t get me started on how crap Youtube is.