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Originally Posted by Porko
Hi guys, any idea if it's possiible to play FLV videos on Iphone/Ipad using HTML5?
we don't want to convert our flv videos to any other format since it's a huge db.
It's possible? How?
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Paul K.
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In order to be able to handle the changes that are coming, you need to keep your original source videos that you do your conversions from and be ready to re-encode.
At this point it's prudent to encode them to H.264, AAC in an mp4 container. That will give you higher quality in smaller file sizes and will be able to play on ipads etc.
Apple has stated they'll never support Flash videos... ipads support HTML5 and the final video standard for that has not been finalized if it ever will be.. Apple has a stake in H.264 with some patents and so they want everyone to use that.. However, Google bought On2 for a reason. They want the encoder to be free to everyone. H.264 is NOT technically free and people are supposed to be paying licensing fees in some cases. There's a date coming up, can't remember when, and it could end up that everyone using H.264 commercially has to start paying for it.
Googles wants the HML5 video standard to be WebM which is based on the VP8 version of the On2 encoders. They're trying to get video card manufacturers to build it into their chipsets. It's true that YouTube has provided H.264 videos for awhile now. However, their HTML5 beta version of YouTube is providing WebM videos.
I think ffmpeg can now decode WebM videos but not sure if they have the encoder part working yet.