In class today we learned a lot about video formats, and how we should be preparing our video for use on Smart Phones such as the iPhone and Android phones. Here is what we must include with our project folder:
Other Platform Folder:
VFE (Video For Everyone):
- MP4
- OG
- index.html
Share:
- iPod
- iPhone
- index.html
Video For Everyone
With HTML 5 comes a new tag <"video"> that allows for embedding of video content without the need for external plugins or applications, it plays straight from the browser providing you have a browser that supports HTML 5. If it can't do this, then the video defaults to quicktime, which allows it to play natively on the iPhone. If it cannot do this, then it falls back to Adobe Flash Player. It finally falls back to an image with a download link to the video, so in no scenario is the user left with a broken web page. As the name suggests, it is to provide video for everybody.
VFE uses MPEG4 (MP4) to play in Safari, Flash and the iPhone, while OGG is needed for playback in Firefox version 3.5. These files must be encoded to work with all the relevant platforms, and then simply linked to in the HTML for the <"video"> tag.
Source: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
Here is a component to export OGG from Quicktime:
http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/
