ipad vs h.264

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

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?

-> http://www.h264info.com/clips.html

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?

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?

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.

and???

Works fine here.

iOS 5 seems to have tweaked the acceptable video formats.

alanchrishughes wrote:

What do you mean "and???"

It's the only way I know how to respond to "." as you last posted.

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.