I've got a discussion going with a customer of mine. He insist that we don't use FLV on his site, as this will not show properly on som Apple products, i.e. IPhone.
Being a non-apple man (!) I'm not sure what to do...
Is there a way, a hack or... to be able to show flv on IPhones... Shoul I use Quicktime or..?
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.
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.
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.
Movie on a website. FLV or MOV
Hi guys ('n'girls)
I've got a discussion going with a customer of mine. He insist that we don't use FLV on his site, as this will not show properly on som Apple products, i.e. IPhone.
Being a non-apple man (!) I'm not sure what to do...
Is there a way, a hack or... to be able to show flv on IPhones... Shoul I use Quicktime or..?
Thanks for any input!
Best,
Morten
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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