Comments on: Getting videos onto the iPad is hit and miss http://blog.erikphansen.com/getting-videos-onto-the-ipad-is-hit-and-miss The reward of a thing well done... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geoffrey Grosenbach http://blog.erikphansen.com/getting-videos-onto-the-ipad-is-hit-and-miss/comment-page-1#comment-557 Geoffrey Grosenbach Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:33:49 +0000 http://blog.erikphansen.com/getting-videos-onto-the-ipad-is-hit-and-miss#comment-557 <p>Thanks for the experimentation and observations. I'll try to debug the issue and see if I can improve the export here at PeepCode.</p> <p>It's odd that some work and others don't (I use the exact same export workflow for all). And it's frustrating that the iPad ignores chapters for some videos. That's one of the best features of Quicktime (when it's available).</p> <p>A little tip: I've uploaded all the iPod versions of current PeepCode videos to Dropbox. If you upload to your personal dropbox, it will see that they already have the file and will take no time at all to upload. Then you can stream them from Dropbox or download from within the Dropbox applications on iPhone or iPad. (But no chapter selection, unfortunately.)</p> Thanks for the experimentation and observations. I’ll try to debug the issue and see if I can improve the export here at PeepCode.

It’s odd that some work and others don’t (I use the exact same export workflow for all). And it’s frustrating that the iPad ignores chapters for some videos. That’s one of the best features of Quicktime (when it’s available).

A little tip: I’ve uploaded all the iPod versions of current PeepCode videos to Dropbox. If you upload to your personal dropbox, it will see that they already have the file and will take no time at all to upload. Then you can stream them from Dropbox or download from within the Dropbox applications on iPhone or iPad. (But no chapter selection, unfortunately.)

]]> By: Scott http://blog.erikphansen.com/getting-videos-onto-the-ipad-is-hit-and-miss/comment-page-1#comment-521 Scott Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:13:46 +0000 http://blog.erikphansen.com/getting-videos-onto-the-ipad-is-hit-and-miss#comment-521 <p>I think I know why your re-encoded videos look washed out. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you have Perian installed. When installed, videos encoded with the h.264 codec are actually using Perian's open source x264 codec. This is what's probably causing your videos to look washed out. Remove Perian and you should see a marked improvement in your re-encoded videos.</p> I think I know why your re-encoded videos look washed out. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you have Perian installed. When installed, videos encoded with the h.264 codec are actually using Perian’s open source x264 codec. This is what’s probably causing your videos to look washed out. Remove Perian and you should see a marked improvement in your re-encoded videos.

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