Most "universal" type of video file?

[William Ehrich]

Hacker Scot wrote:

> So Flash video deployment is a bit more involved than other formats, but 
> Flash video is probably your best bet for already-installed support on 
> the widest variety of computers/operating systems (why do you think it's 
> used by YouTube, vimeo, Flickr video and all the rest?) Despite the 
> extra hassle, if you're displaying video on the web there's little 
> question Flash video is definitely the way to go these days - it's 
> eclipsed the other formats  because of extremely wide penetration of the 
> Flash player (around 98% of users).

I keep the Flash plugin disabled because I haven't found any other way to stop Flash ads from distracting my attention. Other video formats which let me prevent motion or stop it after one cycle are OK.

So 'penetration' includes me, but is misleading.

-- Bill Ehrich