Hey Pat, Yeah, the unfortunate truth of video codecs is that you can't make something for everyone.
Flash seems like the perfect Mac/Windows solution, since nearly all computers have Flash player, or can download it quickly. But Flash doesn't work on phones. Or at least, Flash 8 & 9 won't work on my video phone. Gah. Flash 7 Youtube videos will, though. But now they're being converted to H264, which won't. The one format that does seem to be accepted by almost all phones that play video is 3gp. But at what resolution? 160x120 or thereabouts, I think. Tiny. If you get VisualHub, and get it to pump out multiple versions of your file, and upload all those files to Blip, and then get Blip to crosspost to your blog, you'll get a nice post with all your file formats linked to. MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV. Then, if you publish with Wordpress, you can use something like the nice plugin that the ShowInABox.tv guys have made, to create format- specific feeds. So it'll be possible for you to 'easily' offer podcasting in different formats. But I have to ask, how many people will actually watch on a phone? Like Jan, I make videos using my phone - a Nokia N93, which has serious video capabilities - but I've never ever watched or subscribed to anybody else's video on it. And I'm someone who's very into watching web video. So is it worth the effort? I guess you won't know until you try. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 23 Oct 2007, at 00:03, Patrick Cook wrote: Hi everyone: On 10/22/07, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmmm thats odd ... 3gp is a type of mp4 as I understand it .. but > still ... that odd. :-P > > I don't think I can change the extension, but I can choose to save as > avi instead of mp4 ... I'll do some testing ... given your discovery, > I bet they probably are using the same codec inside the avi container > and thus I probably wouldnt be sacrificing anything by using avi. > I'll test that to be sure. I don't think this will work. I'm trying to figure out a way to encode videos for cell phones without having to upload like a hundred instances of THE SAME video every time I make a video on my desktop PC, but I don't think doing THIS will work regardless of the type of PC. So far, all I've found is some software that encode for some phones, but not others while other software will encode will only encode for only a scant (A *very small* scant at that) handful of phones and that's it. Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - **NEW VLOG** AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH & MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcst) - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ THE PAT COOK SHOW (Audio Podcast) - http://thepcradioshow.blogspot.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
