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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?

Posted on Sep 28, 2011 9:36 AM

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Sep 28, 2011 9:38 AM in response to alanchrishughes

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

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Sep 28, 2011 11:17 AM in response to alanchrishughes

"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.

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Dec 31, 2011 9:59 PM in response to alanchrishughes

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.

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