[Xerte] Re: MP4 Test

[Tom Reijnders]

Works here as well:

Windows ff, IE11 and latest Chrome
Android: ff, android browser, Dolphin.

One anomaly, it worked on Android Chrome the second time, audio only the 
first time.

Tom

Julian Tenney schreef op 31-1-2014 11:06:
>
> I'm finding that out.
>
> Last year we had some issues. They had some videos my team had encoded 
> for them from the Avid decks. I noticed they didn't work on Windows, 
> so put them through Format Factory. That caused some other issue (I 
> think it was audio synching, but without digging out the 
> correspondence I can't remember)?), and they ended up re-encoding them 
> back, because under that setting they worked on iPads and that was all 
> they needed.
>
> Now those videos are being repurposed in the bootstrap template, and 
> in garnering feedback for the new format, loads of people have started 
> saying 'ah, doesn't work' (on Windows when I looked into it). When I 
> looked at the video encoding settings, they were using MP4V. I would 
> like them to use a setting that works everywhere (the FF MP4 H264 
> settings that we all know work everywhere) so I want to prove it.
>
> Thanks for all the input.
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* 31 January 2014 10:02
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: MP4 Test
>
> I've never found a problem with those conversion settings. When you 
> say "some users struggling to encode video to play properly in all 
> browsers on all devices" does your test file work for them? e.g. is 
> the problem their conversion process, how they've added the files to 
> the LO filenames etc, or device specific?
>
> Are they using Bootstrap too or Nottingham template?
>
> Just things I would check/clarify.
>
> Ron
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 31 January 2014 09:50
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: MP4 Test
>
> I've always worked on the basis that Format Factory, on the MP4 (H264) 
> settings works everywhere.
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* 31 January 2014 09:51
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: MP4 Test
>
> That's a much more detailed and better response than my previous 
> response so to clarify...
>
> Win 7 64bit laptop works via
>
> IE
>
> Chrome
>
> Safari
>
> Firefox
>
> and Opera
>
> and as I mentioned iPad and iPhone via Safari
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Yvonne Hood
> *Sent:* 31 January 2014 09:41
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: MP4 Test
>
> Hi Julian
>
> I've just tested it on the following:
>
> Work PC via Google Chrome: Loads the player but doesn't play (latest 
> version of Chrome)
>
> Work PC via IE9: Works fine
>
> Home PC via Google Chrome: Works fine (latest version of Chrome)
>
> IPad i0S7 via Safari: Works fine
>
> IPad iOS7 via Google Chrome: Works fine
>
> 7" Android tablet via Google Chrome: Works fine
>
> Not quite sure what's going on with Chrome on my work PC!
>
> Let me know if I can do anything else to help.
>
> Best regards
>
> Yvonne
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 31 January 2014 09:25
> *To:* Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: MP4 Test
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some users struggling to encode video to play properly in all 
> browsers on all devices. I'd really appreciate knowing if the example 
> below works or fails on whatever deveice you happen to be reading this on:
>
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_9569
>
> There is only one video, if you wouldn't mind trying to play it, in 
> particular on iPads, I'd be grateful for the info. This example is a 
> Format Factory encoding to MP4 using AVC(H264)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julian
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