I have two marketing professionals who from time to time have to convert media that a third party sends us to a format we can post on our internal intranet site. Being a mix of Windows XP and Windows 7, the most common format that will play in browser is WMV. One person can convert to WMV and a whole boatload of other formats are also available in the format column. Another person only has a few things in their format column like FLV and MPEG4. We tried the MPEG4 option and we copied the file to our intranet webserver and followed code guidelines here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_videos.asp but Windows XP clients using IE7 or 8 cannot playback the file. The only thing that seems to work for IE7/8 XP users is using this mess of code here: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/windows-media/streaming/embed.html and ensuring that the video file is in WMV format.
So basically we need to add a way for the other person to get all the additional formats... really just the WMV format. The origninal file is a mov file and can be well over 100+ MB. The WMV file is about 20-30 MB and on a LAN is is much better than 100+ mb. Plus WMV just natively works without installing additional software on 100+ employees machines.
Thank you for your help.
Adobe CS5.