[Dave Gage]

[James Ewart] “I am peaking usually between -12 and -6.”

This is completely off the topic of broadcast, but I try to average between -3 and -6 when going directly to the web and set my Flash video player volume default at 100% and let the user control their own volume. At one point, I had a couple of complaints that the audio for my video was too quiet when I was averaging between -12 and -6. As many others here, I do also use the built-in FCPX Compressor with Limiter.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Lance Bachelder] “I think for American’s, we’re used to seeing breakout plays where such as interceptions run back for touchdowns, stolen balls leading to slam dunks etc. None of this exists in soccer due to the ancient offside rule.”

Amen. Fast breaks are exciting. Even cherry picking makes a game more fun with increased scoring.

[Dave Gage]

[Douglas K. Dempsey] ” I also have a 17″ MBP running Snow Leopard, “frozen” with nothing being updated”

Me too, same machine, except I’m running FCPX 10.0.4, since there was nothing in 10.0.6 or 10.0.9 or 10.1 that I really needed for my fairly simple 720p-straight-to-online work flow. I also can’t find a single thing in Lion, ML, or Mavericks that would inspire me to upgrade. Being a one-man business, I don’t have to answer to clients and don’t get paid by the hour for upgrading. If it ain’t broke…

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “…but I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.”

Roger, Roger.

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Some may call it a bug.”

Where’s the fun in that. Besides, this bug has been around for quite some time now. I’ve had problems with all versions of Android 4.x and they are up to 4.4 something or other. Android 2.x worked fine. Never tested v3.x.

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “t seems like you might want to ask an Android support site.”

Nah, I need to stop here and move on to real work. I’d like to know the reason out of curiosity, but now that I know the workaround, that’s all that really matters. My guess is that Google can’t stand Apple (and vice-versa of course) and this is intentional. Yes, it’s a conspiracy theory, but that’s all I got at the moment.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “There’s an App on the AppStore that lists the contents of file structures.

Try this and see what is different between the two: https://mediainspector.massanti.com/“

Okay, it cost me a whole $2.99, but it’s done. I don’t see any difference except for the last line of the Compressor export – “Encoding Library Apple Quicktime”. Here’s the screenshot of the side-by-side:

[Dave Gage]

[Dave Gage] ”
So the question remains,

…why does this process work? Why can’t I get an MP4 out of any Apple encoding program that works with Android 4.x? I did re-test yesterday on Android 2.x and my original files played fine as well as the new one out of MPEG StreamClip. Google broke (changed) something in Android 4.x. It’s not a big deal, I’m happy for this simple solution, but I am curious. It might have something to do with “baseline”, but I still really don’t understand what that means. Here’s the post that originally led me to try MPEG StreamClip-
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23260996#23260996“

Anybody? What is MPEG StreamClip doing different so that it works with Android devices 4.x but Apple encodes do not?

[Dave Gage]

“I just did a Save as… in MPEG Screenclip and so far so good. The “save as” only took about 10 seconds for a 226 MB file. Now, I have to get my user to test on his Android device. If it works, Shane just saved me about 80 hours.”

[Andrew Richards] “Try doing an “Apple Devices” export to .m4v and just renaming the extension to .mp4.”

Andrew, Jeremy, as I mentioned above, the re-wrapping Shane recommended worked great! I got a chance yesterday to test the 360p file on just about everything I could think of and it was fine. The longest part of this process will be uploading the 75 or so files and many are as large as 250 MBs. The bonus is that this one file works on all devices where before I needed to create two separate files for the Flash player and another for iDevices (my hosting company will be happy when I free up server space).
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So the question remains,

…why does this process work? Why can’t I get an MP4 out of any Apple encoding program that works with Android 4.x? I did re-test yesterday on Android 2.x and my original files played fine as well as the new one out of MPEG StreamClip. Google broke (changed) something in Android 4.x. It’s not a big deal, I’m happy for this simple solution, but I am curious. It might have something to do with “baseline”, but I still really don’t understand what that means. Here’s the post that originally led me to try MPEG StreamClip-
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23260996#23260996

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Bret Williams] ”
His idea was export as a QuickTime h264 mov, then save as a .mp4 . Which does beg the question, why can’t you just change the extension? You can do that with h264 to flv. Just change the .mov to .flv.”

The problem is that my original exports from FCPX are Prores .mov masters (which are long gone) that I then take over to Compressor and encode with x264 to .mp4 and .m4v files which I use on my website members area to stream for a proprietary Flash player (the .mp4) and then use the .m4v for a HTML5 fallback for Apple products. It appears that I can take the .mp4s I’ve been using and just re-wrap them as Shane suggested in MPEG Streamclip. (I’ll know for sure tomorrow.)

So, this will save me a lot of time if it does indeed work with these re-wrapped older .mp4s. In the future, I will take the Prores masters into MPEG Streamclip and export with x264 as .mp4 files. I’ve already tested this method and it does work fine on all the devices I’ve tried it on.