Is this stuff working on iphone/ipod touch, or going further and being optimised as per apple's quidelines?
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/designingcontent.html#embed_movies_in_ webpages I think with all or part of the above, its possible to imporve the experience for users of these devices, eliminating an extra click, and having the thumbnail show instead of a grey box. Apple also go further with their guidelines, in terms of recommending the use of reference movies to offer multiple versions of the video, at different bitrates, to cater for iphone edge, iphone wifi & desktop users: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QT7- 2_Update_Guide/NewFeaturesChangesEnhancements/chapter_2_section_4.html So theyve made such things easier in quicktime since version 7.2, but I suspect this is still too much of a change & extra hassle in peoples workflows for many to have bothered with it. Both desktop & iphone/ipodtouch over wifi (or offline podcast itunes) users are going to be fairly well catered for with peoples existing format choices that are generally <800kbits, its only really people using the edge network that are suffering as a result of people not offering very low bitrate video. But only a minority of vlogs ever catered to other mobile phone formats, so I'll be intregued whether the iphone popularity makes any difference. Not that the iphone has been immensly popular here in the UK yet, it has not sold as wella s the hype suggested, from the peope Ive spoken too the price/contract is wrong, and brits have embraced the quality cameras on mobile phones more than the idea of surfing the web or watching video on them, so far. Im interested in how many ipod touch's get sold too, thats the option I went for and love the interface and how well Apple have integrated video playback into the browser. Hence the original point of this email, as the experience is even nicer when the videos are embedded in the way Apple recommends. Anyways, Im aware that the primary goal of your code and forthcoming Drupal lovelinesswas probably not iphone support, but if you do tune it to work nicely with ipod touches and iphones I think it would be more than a small bonus, especially as flash has become so dominant for a lot of desktop in-browser video stuff, Apple's range of hardware providing a compelling reason to still offer that format. Its been a little while since I read the apple developer guides for this stuff, but Im pretty sure your code will be able to detect if the device is an iphone or ipod touch, and offer slightly different embedding method if true? Im just getting back into Drupal so if you dont have time or interest in these optimisations, I would love to have a go at modifying your drupal plugin accordingly, once its released. Cheers Steve Elbows PS. Im guessing that in the future once the Flash H.264 stuff goes non-beta and gets installed a lot, for many vloggers the ideal plugin may offer a h264 file embedded in a flash file for widest desktop compatibility, and a non-flash version that uses the same h264 video file, but is optimised for devices such as the iphone etc. Then as video tags become a part of HTML standard and get adopted by different browsers, this may start to replace the flash option, though its far from certain. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Sinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been browsing Mefeedia and playing videos for some time on my > iPhone and all works great (except the AT&T network - really need WiFi > for video playback). Actually, i can browse and play videos in my > channel really nicely by just entering the url > http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ and i'm on my way. > > We've been using a custom PHP embed script for some time - will have > to check the jQuery plugin. Thanks for the plugin link. There is > another plugin too that also does Flash and other formats (we > currently support Quicktime, Flash, Real, Windows Media, and others). > > Regards, > -Frank > > Frank Sinton > > http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen" > <solitude@> wrote: > > > > ...and of course grab the stuff needed here: > > http://www.solitude.dk/archives/embedquicktime/ > > > > It is basically a re-implementation of the blip.tv "thumbnail flipper" > > with a much smaller footprint or a version of vPIP with all the fluff > > removed, depending on how you look at it. I just needed something > lean for > > embedding quicktimes and I especially wanted a really simple code > > generator. > > > > There will be a Drupal module in the near future (I'm already using > the > > Drupal module on solitude.dk but I need to touch it up a bit before I > > release the code). > > > > - Andreas > > > > Den 28.11.2007 kl. 15:33 skrev schlomo rabinowitz <schlomo@>: > > > > > It's a pretty simple embed code made by Andreas; you can read his > > > writeup of > > > it here:<http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20071112-0410/> > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 28, 2007 12:07 PM, tim@ <tim@> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Yesterday Schlomo Twittered about the Evil Vlog QT Embed test > http:// > > >> www.evilvlog.com/?p=1866 > > >> > > >> I went there and got the videos to play on my iPhone. > > >> > > >> Has anyone else experimented with Quicktime Embeds? > > >> > > >> Tim > > >> > > >> Tim Street > > >> Creator/Executive Producer > > >> French Maid TV > > >> The Viral Video of "How To's" by French Maids > > >> http://frenchmaidtv.com > > >> Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes > > >> > > >> MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Yahoo! Groups Links > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > > http://www.solitude.dk/ > > >
