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Videos for mobile website
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- Franck
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Hello Falks and Merry Christmas!
I'm thinking to create a new website and make it available for mobiles. The website will have videos so my question is do you know what is the best format I can use? mp4 is a good choice? (very heavy I think). I must admit that I'm a total newbie in this area. I never use my mobile to access the Internet...
I searching about JavaFXM too; seems to be a new format but until now I don't understand how it works.
If you don't know yet, have a look at www.javafx.com
They are creating a system compatible with all platforms.
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- Jamesso
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Video for mobile platforms can be a tough decision. Since the iPhone doesn't support flash, or many other standards for that matter, you will undoubtedly be limited to whatever format is best for that platform because of its market share. The iPhone currently supports H.264 and MPEG-4 in .mp4, .mov, .m4v formats. I would personally recommend H.264 in a .mp4 wrapper. You will need to make sure the resolution (iPhone is 320x480) and bitrate are appropriate as well. The bitrate you will have to tinker with until you find a happy medium. Hope that helps.
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- Franck
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Thanks a lot jamesso for the informations. It's exactly the kind of thing I need to know. If iPhone doesn't support flash I guess it's impossible to use a flash player
Do you know how it's possible to play a video in this case? Or iPhone support swf but not flv?
Thanks in advance.
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- jayskibob
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- i'm also looking for something that can help play videos on iphone and normal site - anyone got any ideaS?
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- Jamesso
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- HTML5 and a Javascript player will get the job done. Here's a good start - camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
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- kauri
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Jamesso wrote:
HTML5 and a Javascript player will get the job done. Here's a good start - camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
Hi, i'm running Dominion on one site and Crystalline on another - i recently rolled out html5 video specifically for iphone4 and ipad support on them both, but i wanted to take as many browsers along for the ride as i could as well. For each video i made an MP4 for i-devices and browsers like Safari that support html5/mp4, OGV versions for Firefox 3.6+ and FLV fallbacks for FF3, IE7 and 8 (i chose flv instead of mp4 for the flash player fallback to support older flash versions that don't do MP4), also tested on Opera 11, Chrome and IE9.
If you have a flashplayer plugin for your site already, you can use the player for your flash fallback. The following code also has autoplay/autostart on the html5 and flash fallback, which you may want to get rid of unless the user has implicitly asked to watch a video by clicking a link.
<video width="640" height="360" controls="controls" autoplay="autoplay"> <source src="path_to_file.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="path_to_file.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' /> <object width="640" height="379" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="path_to_mediaplayer.swf" > <param name="movie" value="path_to_mediaplayer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="flashvars" value="autostart=true&file=path_to_file.flv" /> </object> </video>
I've put in two separate flash fallback calls to the same .SWF, one for the Fox, and one for IE.
I also included the wmode param as the flashplayer in the HTML5 needs to be told to pay attention to z-index - otherwise it will draw over your dropdown menus and the like. This works in both articles and custom html modules... I found Firefogg great on FF 3.6 to make the OGVs.
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- wyatt-2010
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We have a lot of videos on the site that are YouTube feeds.
Does anyone know how I can call the YouTube app to play them?
I guess the code would have to detect the device since it works fine via omputer.
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- kauri
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wyatt-2010 wrote:
We have a lot of videos on the site that are YouTube feeds. Does anyone know how I can call the YouTube app to play them? I guess the code would have to detect the device since it works fine via computer.?
Hi, I use the JPlayer plugin for youtube embeds in articles... works surfing on iphone/ipad, as well as the usual pc/mac browser suspects, no need to boot up the youtube app - this is in J! 1.5.15 and J!1.5.22 with rockettheme gantry :cheesy:
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- wyatt-2010
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Hi Kauri, THANKS!!
I appreciate your input, I will definately be checking it out!
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