AME CS5 Preset for iPad?

[Tim Cavins]

When I load the video through iTunes, I am able to play the video perfectly on the iPad.

Why would it work this way but not through the web? It plays fine in Internet Explorer on my PC so I don’t think it’s a mime type issue.

Any ideas?

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Tim,

We use use settings based on the specs below, never had issues with playback.

H.264 video up to 1080p
30 frames per second
High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps
48kHz, stereo audio
.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
.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

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[John Young]

[Tim Cavins] “Why would it work this way but not through the web?”

How are you trying to play the file through the web? Are you linking directly to the mp4 file in Safari or is the mp4 file in the structure of an html page?

John

[Tim Cavins]

John,

I am linking directly to the mp4 file.

The video does work on an external facing website. I am using CISCO AnyConnect VPN on my phone to access our internal sites and those sites are not playing the mp4. So I don’t think it has anything to do with how it’s encoded/rendered.

I’m currently trying to go through IIS on the different machines to see if I see anything different.

I did see a link yesterday that someone said Sharepoint was causing the same issues for someone else until they added the mime types to the sharepoint server.

Tim

[John Young]

You are right that your encoding settings are probably not the issue. You are now in the land of web programming, and that land is full of mine fields for us video guys.

John

[David Thomas]

In Adobe Media encoder CS5, I simply dragged my HD Quicktime file to the Source window. Then I changed the preset to “Apple TV 720p”. Then “Start Queue”. It compressed it nearly in real-time. After compressing, I dragged the new .MP4 file to the Itunes “Movie” window for the iPad. In seconds I was able to play the great quality video in the iPad native Video App.