HTML widget with video

I've read this doc http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5065 and it says no .m4v in HTML widgets -- only mp4. I get the same message with either file type.

K T - I read that too and I've tried both. The video isn't DRM - it's my original file exported from QT using Apple's presets for both iPod, and iPad as the docs say. Neither work in hte HTML widget.

Thanks for the input, frato. I've also tried creating a Keynote presentation with a video but iBooks Author won't let me add that either. I haven't tried audio but will do that today and see if I make any progress.

In each chapter of our book we have several videos and were trying to create a player of sorts with thumbnails of related videos (similar to YouTue) so that we didn't have to embed multiple instances of the media widget on the pages. HTML is ideal for this but just seems to not be ready yet. HTML by itself seems to work just fine though.

There does seem to be a bug in the HTML widget in that it won't allow any local video content like the documentation says. I haven't been able to get a definitive response/clarification from Apple on this but after much hair pulling and reading other posts this does seem to be the consensus from the community.

The only workaround I've come across so far is to us an iFrame in your HTML to display the video from a remote server.

We can't have any remote content in our iBook so we had to change the way we presented our material and use the Media widget to display .m4v files. The problem we've had with this approach is that we really don't have much control over the encoding settings for the .m4v files. Compressor provides some control but won't allow us to go below a preset data rate that is much too high for us. We have over 400 videos that we have to include in our book. We've come up with a very strange workaround for creating the .m4v videos that requires us to first create a .mp4 or .mov video with a very low data rate and then use QT 10 to export the video using the iPhone 3GS preset. The resulting .m4v is 2-3 times larger than our source .mov. At least it's at a size that will allow us to cram all 400+ videos into the book.

Sure wish Apple will fix this soon!!!! It's extremely frustrating not being able to control the overall data rate of the .m4v files and even more frustrating that we can't use local .mp4 videos in the HTML widget like the documentation says.