Originally Posted by kesha1

Thank you for your reply!
To be honest I don't know what to tell you about weather I want the videos to be downloadable or to stream them, that was originally my question. If the shift towards mobile took place then the members area should stream the videos, right? Unlike it was before: download and watch later.
So, I was hoping for something that will do both, like the same WMV files which I used for years, that are meant for download but if you just click on the download link they open a player and start playing the video, just as it was streaming, and even you can click anywhere in the middle of a video in the player timeline and the video plays from that point.
The problem is that not too many mobile devices play WMV files. So, I encoded the latest update in h264 (mp4) format, which a couple of portable devices started playing, but not all of them. I tried different fps settings: 29.96 and 29.97, but it didn't matter. I guess once a device doesn't have a codec it won't play it anyway.
To my surprise I realized that Premiere CC nor Media Encoder CC doesn't have the Flash format anymore, I guess they prefer to call it just an mp4 format with a choice of targets like Youtube, Vimeo, etc. to avoid misunderstanding that people will expect them to stream by it self, without a player on their server.
Speaking of the flash player, I still don't know if I should install one and make even the members area videos streamable since most of the videos are watched on a mobiles, or will I lose my downloading members this way? How about other sites members areas today, what do they do: streaming or downloads?