Compressor H.264 and Android devices

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Compressor H.264 and Android devices

I'm looking to make videos on our web site as mobile compatible as is practical and have run into a specific issue with compressor. When I tried to play one of our H.264 videos on an Android device I got the picture but no sound. I did some experimenting and found that any video made with the Format of Quicktime (regardless of codec) had the same problem. I have been able to make H.264 videos with other tools such as Handbrake and ffmpeg with similar settings as used in Compressor and those work fine on the Android. Anyone have an idea what my problem is and if there is a work-around? So far my only option seems to be using ffmpeg instead of compressor.

Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Jan 28, 2011 9:12 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 28, 2011 9:40 AM in response to MoSaT

Android is a google product? You probably need to talk to other Android users to figure out what the specific needs and limitations of the platform are. Then tell us and we'll try to figure out how to get Compressor to do the job for you.

Google has declared HTML5 as +formata non grata+ for Chrome so I'm not surprised there is no Quciktime support on the device.

bogiesan

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Answer 2

Jan 29, 2011 9:27 PM in response to MoSaT

I've had luck with H.264/AAC from Quicktime Player 7 and Adobe Media Encoder. I've never been able to export to Android out of Compressor. The AAC flavours Compressor offers aren't to Android's taste.

Here's the spec sheet on what is/isn't accepted.
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

Also, for the record, Google supports and actively contributes to HTML5. The hang up is the video tag in HTML 5 does not specify a codec. Google is dropping support for H.264 video in Chrome when using the video tag because H.264 is proprietary, not open. This is the same reason H.264 video support has never been in Firefox. H.264 will be supported in Chrome through Flash, just as WebM will be supported almost everywhere else via Flash.

Message was edited by: soundman1024 - Changed from "AAC" to "H.264/AAC" in 1st sentence

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