[microdesign]

Hi there,

im creating a website for a film company. they like to have a iphone supported website with the possibility for streaming media. i know that iphone does not support flash...

does anyone knows a way how to get streaming movies on a site working for the iphone.
it would realy help me out. ive seen some site that do work

Dailymotion - Share Your Videos and i think Vimeo, Video Sharing For You works as well. but im not sure

i cant figure out how they managed to do this. please let me know

[MikeMackay]

Well I'm guessing that as the iPhone (courtesy of iTunes) natively supports MP4 h.264 you could encode your videos to that format and embed a QT player in the page.

Granted it won't be very attractive but it should give you want you need.

Alternatively, instead of embedding the player in the page you could just to the file and Safari *should* start playing it inline (although you will lose your content page altogether).

I do hope they officially bring Flash to the iPhone soon!

Hope that helps.

[JonoMarshall]

YouTube on a page opens the YouTube app and seems to stream more effectively than embedded video on the page, not ideal for keeping them on the site though..?

[microdesign]

Originally Posted by MikeMackay

Well I'm guessing that as the iPhone (courtesy of iTunes) natively supports MP4 h.264 you could encode your videos to that format and embed a QT player in the page.

Granted it won't be very attractive but it should give you want you need.

Alternatively, instead of embedding the player in the page you could just to the file and Safari *should* start playing it inline (although you will lose your content page altogether).

I do hope they officially bring Flash to the iPhone soon!

Hope that helps.

can u confirm this works. or is it just a idea?
maybe its a better idea to just link to youtube links or something. but dailymotion did a pretty nice job.

[microdesign]

anyone saw and/or tested this before?
IPhone H.264 version - Beebhack

[MikeMackay]

Well that page says the beeb use an embedded QuickTime player to stream MP4 (h.264) which is pretty much what I said

[microdesign]

Originally Posted by MikeMackay

Well that page says the beeb use an embedded QuickTime player to stream MP4 (h.264) which is pretty much what I said

haha ok cool sorry for that.. your english was pretty hard for a non-english person :-) thanks 4 the support. i will post update when im done with it maybe its interesting!

[hobolooter]

Thanks for pointing this out. I never realized you could stream video via the iPhone. Maybe I'll write a web application to stream from my home machine. I'd imagine streaming audio would be just as easy. I could stream my music collection while driving.