I have a client who wants to deploy lots of videos encoded to their own specs. They need galleries, search/tags, streaming, related vids, categories, variable dimensions, viewing stats. Also they are deploying audio, but maybe this is a separate issue. They are a video production company, so its only the Joomla bit they dont know.

I have been perusing available players and (scary though setting it up may be) hwdvideoshare looks like the most likely contender.

What confuses me is that all videos are converted to Flash on upload - Do you lose your H.264 advantage?

Is someone out there experienced in all this, I'm very new to it myself (as you can tell!)

All advice/info gratefully received.
thx
Dex