OT: Video on the web using HTML5

Coursedesign wrote on 10/18/2009, 3:53 PM

Great article on just about everything related to codecs, licensing, and how to get it all to work in the best way when viewers have all kinds of browsers on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Invaluable information, and written very clearly.

He even shows how to make your HTML5 video show properly in IE8, which is the only major browser that doesn't support it.

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Cliff Etzel wrote on 10/18/2009, 4:41 PM

So break it down into the lowest common denominator...

AFAIAC - h.264 MP4 seems to be the most universal, although I just tried to deliver a low rez web video I had shot and edited for a client and for whatever reason, they couldn't read the SONY implementation of MP4 (AVC for the web)

This is becoming insane with all these branches of what should be really straight forward usage of codecs. Seems to me OGG is the most appealing, yet has virtually no install base except with Open Source geeks and those using Firefox which supports it natively...

Just sayin...

Cliff Etzel
Videographer : Producer : Web Designer
bluprojekt

Coursedesign wrote on 10/18/2009, 4:51 PM

they couldn't read the SONY implementation of MP4 (AVC for the web)

Which extension did you use, .mp4 or .mov?

Change it and you may be home free.

Cliff Etzel wrote on 10/18/2009, 5:50 PM

Which extension did you use, .mp4 or .mov?

mp4....

Cliff Etzel
Videographer : Producer : Web Designer
bluprojekt

Coursedesign wrote on 10/19/2009, 6:42 AM

".mp4" is new, a lot of software doesn't support it yet.

Many players can't "read the envelope" even though they are able to read the content.

Change the extension to .mov, that may be all you need to do.