Okay well I am in, as proponents of Flash video, we can definately use an objective comparison that extends even out to include traditional encoding methods such as QT WM and Real . Streaming content providers have little use for swf video but I would say that for on demand P2P scenarios swf video has some very strong points and probably a huge market potential. Almost all our customers we design sites for ask us for video, in fact we are about to do some cool boxing video workouts for one of our clients. I bet its the same for alot of flash developers.

I can contribute substancially in the area of SV. If the swf video guys (flix, at least but maybe also swideo.com, livetronix.com, vid2swf, flashants.com, turbine and whatever others) are in, then I can see about getting some of the guidelines used in the traditional streaming codecs and we can all contribute as to which guidelines can apply or add new parameters as needed and we can even take it a step further and include the dv codec comparison results from streamingmedia.com.

Then all we need are a couple of contril clips. Maybe an independent film maker can contribute a good movie trailer. Instead of bumbling around with claims that may or not be substanciated we can lay it out on the line and get some conclusive results.

In the past we have conducted various surveys. I think this would be a great opportunity to integrate a little viewer poll. I wonder if Flashkit would be interested in supporting this. Most of the other codec comparisons I have seen get you do download the file so you can view it locally, that might not be a bad idea either.

Lets see first if Jonathan from flix is in and in the meantime I will contact the other guys who have swf conversion softwares and see if I can start tracking down some relevant info.