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Encoding for iTunes

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  • smith234 9 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I been using Handbrake to encode my videos, but that will not play in iTunes so I changed to Corel the program I use to edit (it makes a much larger file but the video is better and still plays ok and plays in iTunes). Would 1280 x 720 data 2000 be ok?

    How can I make sure my MP4s are good for iTunes as well? I think the Handbrake issue is to do with the codec they use. The open source one.

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  • Martin 9 years ago

    Hello Chan,

    I checked iTunes video specs and it looks really close to what is required by HTML5. So there is hope the same file will work.

    We added more instructions to our encoding guide, it’s about audio – pay attention to make sure the audio stream is AAC encoded: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/encoding Also make sure you are using latest version of HandBrake.

    I would start at 640px wide h264 Baseline profile 3.0 level video with AAC audio at 128Kbps. Not the best looking, but should be safe. Then you can try to up the resolution to something more decent if required. Please not that old iPhones won’t handle more than 640x480px videos though. That’s why we encourage people to put up mobile versions of their videos: http://foliovision.com/wordpress/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/encoding#mobile-video

    As you are our licensed user, I checked your site and the last video – is really big – almost 4GB. 1 minute of a decent HD video should be at around 10MB, so your 2,5 hours long video should be at 1,5GB.

    Do you have a shorter video somewhere so we could check its encoding and compare it to what you get from Handbrake? Can you provide a sample of that too? Perhaps it’s just the audio encoding.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    smith234 9 years ago

    It is a large video put it does look very good and plays good. I am encoding a small one for the phones as we speak.
    I think it’s the codec they use. I tried presets just to see, alittle of different ones and it still doesn’t play in iTunes. I used miro even and it will not work. The miro presets. I think they use the same codec. It plays on apple tv everything else but not on the iTunes on a pc. It’s prob a iTunes problem but I post some videos on the podcast in iTunes and I want them to play it also.

    Martin 9 years ago

    Hello Chan,

    have you tried purchasing some video like yours form iTunes and then looking at it what codecs with what bitrate etc. it uses?

    Thanks,
    Martin

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