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Well, I’ll be looking forward to see the other possible solution you have that may allow Android and iPhone/iPad view the same video. You guys are smart I know you can pull it off. Thanks for your had work, I’ve done a lot of testing on other similar WP apps to display HTML5 videos and you solution seems to be the best so far!
Maybe you can ask CNN how they do it. It blows me away how you see a small image on their page, tap on it, and it blows up to a bigger size pushing the pages text down making room for it. Then sets there waiting for you to press the play button. Works the same way on both the iPhone or iPad. Very cool! Check it out on this page:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/18/arizona.shooting/index.html
“Using multiple video formats would be somehow hard to manage within one FV Flowplayer shortcode. Also, you would have to create and upload those videos. At this moment we are not implementing this functionality, we’ll see about this in the future.”
Oh I totally agree, nor do I want to encode and upload more than one video. Is that what Vimeo and Youtube does? Do they encode more than one video to play on different devices? One for the iPad, one for the Android, one for the iPhone, one for the desktop computer, one for slow DSL one for fast broadband… the list could go on…
“Generally, there’s no coded that would play on every device…”
How does Vimeo and YouTube do it?
That’s good to hear!
I’ve heard from a friend with an Android that my HTML5 videos under HTML5 support does not work on his phone. That’s not good ;(
Well, I took the plunge and all seems to be working great on my Flash enabled computer, and my iPhone and iPad via WPtouch.
Now the only thing missing is to get a image or splash image to appear over the player while viewing on the iPHone or iPad.
If anyone has an Android, I would sure appreciate it if you would test this page to seen if my videos play. On the iPad or iPhone I have to wait for the play buttons to appear over the player, with isn’t too bad, it’s just if I had a splash screen showing while waiting for the play button that would be nice. Here’s the link.
What exactly do I back up via FTP?
I believe it told me it failed to install because the folders already existed.
Do you know if this new HTML version will work with the WPtouch plugin? This is a deal breaker if it doesn’t.
You didn’t say what we need to do if we are already using FV WordPress Flowplayer. I attempted to install the HTML5 beta and it failed. I don’t want to screw up my other videos on my blog using the previous version, but would like to test the beta version to see if it plays nicely with WPtouch 2.1
