ipad vs h.264
How is it possible that the ipad doesn't support h.264 video? That is like Adobe not supporting Flash. Is there any way around this to player h.264 files on ipads?
How is it possible that the ipad doesn't support h.264 video? That is like Adobe not supporting Flash. Is there any way around this to player h.264 files on ipads?
From here...
Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
Clearly the iPad does play H.264 because 1) it's in the specs, 2) All YouTube videos accessed by iOS deviecs are H.264 and 3) millions of iOS users view H.264 videos everyday.
Perhaps yours are not H.264?
"This video can't be played with your current setup. Please switch to a browser that provides native H.264 support or install Adobe's Flash Player."
- vimeo.com
Then there were some quicktime files I was sync'ing from my imac to it, and a number of them were going through fine but some said they weren't compitable or wouldn't play on the ipad so they wouldn't copy over, and I think they were all h.264 files. One that wouldn't copy says, "Codecs: Linear PCM, H.264" when I look at its info.
Dunno.
Don't have my iPad with me and can't say I have been to Vimeo.
You can use the Vimeo app on the iPad.
And Vimeo is in the latest AppleTV update (which doesn't use Flash).
The profiles used to encode the videos may be higher than the iPad can use.
There is no Apple h.264 codec.
There is a h.264 codec.
It is not surprising final cut would put out a video not playable by the iPad.
There are also many others things to consider-resolution, bitrate, profile level.
iPad plays a limited subset of mp4, h.264 video.
As pointed out in numerous posts above-read the tech specs.
The iPad supports h.264 video.
See the technical specifications here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
What makes you think the iPad does not support h.264 videos?
Are you viewing a website with some videos? What's the website?
Because I bought one yesterday and it won't play h.264 files
How are you trying to play these h.264 files?
Are they from a web page? Are you syncing them using iTunes? Are tehy emailed to you?
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and???
Works fine here.
iOS 5 seems to have tweaked the acceptable video formats.
What do you mean "and???"
alanchrishughes wrote:
What do you mean "and???"
It's the only way I know how to respond to "." as you last posted.
I'm just wanted to bump it to the top hoping someone would see it and have an answer.
Its just so strange that if you export a video from Apple's Final Cut Pro, as an Apple Quicktime file, in Apple's h.264 codec, it isn't compatible with Apple's iPad.
ipad vs h.264