There is no hack to use FLV on smartphones. Most likely tablets and smartphones (iOS and Android) will never support Flash. I think it is a good idea not to use flv unless you need DRM.

Basically my recomendation would be to build videos in mov and use HTML5 <video> tags, then do javascript hack for IE6-IE8 users that converts <video> tags to flash object and loads .mov. 

Thank you Jukka-Pekka

Is it possible to you can supply a link to such a script. Unfortunately I'm a noob there.

Best,

Morten

Hi Morten

I'm not sure you should serve .mov - try to have a look at this WIKI entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video

Warren Buckley and Anders Burla have made a HTML5 video package for Umbraco, which you can find here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/html5-video

For more information about using HTML5 Video element have a look at this tutorial: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/quick-tip-html-5-video-with-a-fallback-to-flash/

I should be everything you need - please notice you don't need to use the package provided by Warren and Anders but it makes the skinning of the player a bit easier it seems.

Hope this helps you.

/Jan

Hi!

We had that problema a few months ago, we solved using this: http://videojs.com/

All of the video are in mp4 (it plays on ipad/iphone) and in flash.

You can what we did in here http://www.canalpanda.pt/panda-tv

I hope that this helps

Hi,

I would really recommend using JW Player http://www.longtailvideo.com/ (free for non-commercial or €59 for commercial) and using a single mp4 (base profile) movie as this will play on everything including iPads, iPhones etc...as it auto switches between Flash and HTML5 video.

You can see an example at http://www.greengraphics.co.uk/products/exhibition-and-display/eco-banner-stand/ (bottom of the page) This is combined with the Umbraco Universal Media Picker and Amazon Cloudfront provider for real streaming video for Flash clients, really is a dream combination! http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/universal-media-picker

Regards,

Jeavon

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