iPhone video streaming sort of..

After doing some tests and reading some blog posts about the iPhone, someone pointed out to me a link which if you go to it on your iPhone http://www.apple.com/trailers/iphone/ you will see the same trailer page as normally on your PC but when you click on a trailer you get a iPhone formatted page (example). [...]

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iPhone video streaming a no go currently.

After doing many tests with my buddy who has an iPhone I was unable to get any sort of streaming working via the Safari browser.
I have encoded and tested the following:
mpeg4 + aac (hinted non hinted)

doesn’t work via DSS or direct html link Safari doesn’t understand RTSP and http:// linked videos it wants to load [...]

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iPhone video encoding specs for streaming?

Today is the day when people line up to get the next generation in mobile phones. iPhone hysteria is on the loose and you cant escape hearing about iPhones in the news and on the net. I wont be getting an iPhone any time soon esp since It would require me to break [...]

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FFmpeg changes

As of late the SVN builds of ffmpeg have been changing the configuration args to compile ffmpeg and encoding options after the software is compiled. I wanted to befiely mention the changes I have noticed.
My original compile options for ffmpeg : –extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include –extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib –disable-debug –enable-mp3lame –enable-libogg –enable-vorbis –enable-faad –enable-faadbin –enable-faac –enable-pthreads –enable-xvid –enable-x264 –enable-a52 [...]

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Wide Screen video encoding for qcif

Well, many of you are probably wondering how to convert a non 4:3 type of video into qcif (176×144) and keep the aspect ratio of the video. This is a bit tricky and isn’t an exact science due to the nature mpeg. Most mobile phones can handle qcif resolution but anything smaller or [...]

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Converting 16:9 content to QCIF ?

Ok, this has been a thorn in my side and I have been doing a bit of research and tests with out much luck so far.
The issue is taking content that is shot in HD and converting it to the mobile phone screen but keeping the proper aspect of the HD content. This leads [...]

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