Friday, February 11, 2011

Video for the web - 2011 updates - HTML 5 video etc

Quicktime Embed
-Nice easy export from the old Quciktime Pro 7 'Export for web' with iphone capable versions and a poster frame, and it makes some code for your site. Seems to work nice out of the box. Makes and m4v file...

Questions:
if iphone dosnt support flash, how come youtube works if that is flash video?? is it actually h.264 on the flash player, whcih iphone plays on quxiktime
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/20youtube.html
To achieve higher video quality and longer battery life on mobile devices, YouTube has begun encoding their videos in the advanced H.264 format, and iPhone will be the first mobile device to use the H.264-encoded videos. Over 10,000 videos will be available on June 29, and YouTube will be adding more each week until their full catalog of videos is available in the H.264 format this fall.

ok so its not flv, its h.264... its flv on youtube desktop??

SKINS
A free QT skin that looks like JW player... free for non commercial use.
http://www.zenwebware.com/webware/zenqt-player/

HTML 5 Video!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
it dosnt seem ready

demos
http://www.html5video.org/demos/

!!! Definitive article on HTML5 and video formats for web 2011
http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html

Finally some instructions:

For maximum compatibility, here’s what your video workflow will look like:
1. Make one version that uses WebM (VP8 + Vorbis).
2. Make another version that uses H.264 baseline video and AAC “low complexity” audio in an MP4 container.
3. Make another version that uses Theora video and Vorbis audio in an Ogg container.
4. Link to all three video files from a single

Miro video encoder for all the latest formats:
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/


go to the bottom of the above article for the full code to use for these formats, includes video tag and object tag for flash... yay!