Video

OSMF Flash Video Player for WordPress

Trying out this WordPress Plugin:
Flash Media Playback

Up till now, I’ve used the Viper’s Video Quicktags, which has served me well to date, and is great b/c it allows you to embed a variety of videos like YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr and a bunch more. The problem with Viper’s is the Flash option uses the jwplayer, which comes with some restrictions like non-commercial use only.

So, I think the perfect combo of WordPress video plugins is Flash Media Playback for Flash with HTML5 fallback, and Viper’s Video Quicktags for YouTube, Vimeo, etc (i.e. everything else). Read on to see the examples:

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Hack to make vipers-video-quicktags detect iPad and use HTML5 Video Tag

I use this WordPress plugin, vipers-video-quicktag, in a couple sites I maintain. I use it to display FLV video. I’ve found if I create .mp4 videos with the H.262 video and AAC audio codecs, it’ll play in the Flash player, as well as on iPhone, iPad and iPod. This is neat, a single video format … Read moreHack to make vipers-video-quicktags detect iPad and use HTML5 Video Tag

iPad HTML5 Video tag with div overlay with form not working

If you have a page that detects browser and feeds up the Flash version for browsers that’ll accept it and the HTML5 version for those that will take that, you may have noticed that trying to display a DIV over the top of the video renders that <form> inside to not work on the iPad. … Read moreiPad HTML5 Video tag with div overlay with form not working

Video Encoding for Dummies

I have a set of .wmv files, about 12 totaling about 8 hours, that were made with Microsoft Windows Media Encoder in “Capture Screen” mode. This uses a proprietary Microsoft codec called MSS2. It’s optimized for screen capture and does a really good job with compression and displays in high quality on Windows Media Player. … Read moreVideo Encoding for Dummies