Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? 68
Russ writes "Our corporate media delivery platform is in the process of being refactored (at long, long last), and one of the preferred requirements is the ability to serve streaming video to iPhone and iPod Touch devices, similar to the way YouTube does it — show a screen shot, and when the user taps it, the video should play full-screen and landscaped automatically. The problem comes from the severe lack of documentation Apple provides on how, precisely, this can be done. From what I can tell, YouTube still fires a Flash object to the iPhone despite its lack of Flash support. I have, to a certain extent, been able to review some of YouTube's Flash code and get a hack working on our platform (no screenshot, not landscape, but does play automatically), but I'm sure I'm missing a 'trick of the trade' somewhere that makes the process transparent to the user. Has anyone out there done this before, and if so, how? The standard (and non-standard) Quicktime object/embed codes seem to only provide partial functionality on the iPhone/iPod."
Is this really the proper forum to be asking that? (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously, there are entire web sites dedicated to web programming discussions of this sort.
had to happen... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:AS Long as we're doing this--- (Score:1, Insightful)
anyone want to tell me how I can duplicate redtube (NSFW in a million years) video thumbnails?
They are rather excellent, and I aussume automated.....
Use mencoder to pull out individual frames (one frame a minute or something) and then turn it into a GIF animation. .. not that I know what redtube thumbnails are.
Not really (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem comes from the severe lack of documentation Apple provides on how, precisely, this can be done.
Given the number of different links to apple.com web pages already provided in this thread, I'd say the real problem is someone doesn't want to do any reading.
Re:Stop contributing to the Apple monopoly (Score:2, Insightful)
You make it sound like excessive choice is a good thing. I personally am fine with Apples limited product line that is all integrated.
I suggest you watch this TED video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM [youtube.com]
The reason people like Apple products is because you take it home and it all works together without any effort on your part.
Where has research gone? (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously the standard of developers these days seems to have plummeted. If you want to provision for a device go and get the manual for that device, find out that H264 is what you need for the iPhone and that YouTube most certainly does NOT stream flash to iPhones.
I'm going to put my grumpy old bloke hat on here, but its the same hat I wore when I was 25 and someone asked me how to run Windows apps on an IBM RS6000. That person's excuse was that they just "thought it would work" which was a woeful statement from someone who had a degree in IT. This AskSlashdot is at the same level in that the question boldly states something that ISN'T TRUE (YouTube stream flash) and thinks there is some magic secret.
There is no magic secret, there is something that shouldn't be considered a secret at all. That thing is called RESEARCH, hell I'm not even asking you to hit the books in a library but just Google YouTube iPhone [google.co.uk] to find a FREE converter that talks about the video differences or YouTube iPhone video codec [google.co.uk]. It really is trivial. And if you can't do that then have a thought about just giving up and using Google Apps Premier Edition for your business and using the commercial version of YouTube that it supplies.