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   wkeving
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago

   I love the concept and the look and feel of the whole thing. Excellent work. I am curious, though, as to the decision to use FLV for media playback. With mobile device and mobile access proliferation, I would love to see support for HTML5, so that iPhone, Android, etc. users could access the content from their devices. Keep up the good work.
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   mbecan
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago

   I agree... I was looking at this as a way to provide a platform for internal podcasts and vidcasts for our mobile users. Can this support the berry and the iphone?

   Otherwise... this is an excellent platform... I'm blown away!
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   Jeremy
   Community Manager
   Posted 2 years ago

   These are both really good points. Adding HTML5 support is in the roadmap which we should be publishing in early February... it's just taking a while to decide which features we are going to build next and we need to gather adequate responses from the community. The most requested features will probably be the ones that will receive the most attention.

   Right now the display will work admirably in the iPhone, but unless you are viewing a page with an embedded YouTube video (ie. http://getmediacore.com/view/into-battle) it won't be viewable in the iPhone since the iPhone does not currently support Flash.

   I did see an interesting blog yesterday on an open-source framework that uses Javascript to display flash video. That might be something we take a more serious look at in the next month or two.
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   Nathan Wright
   Maintainer
   Posted 2 years ago

   You can substitute flowplayer for a HTML5 video tag by editing mediacore/templates/helpers.html at line 200. You'll just have to be mindful of the codecs you use.

   Videos encoded with H264 in an MP4 container play in Safari and Chrome but not Firefox; Ogg Theora can play in Chrome and Firefox but not Safari. H264 has better quality at high bitrates; Ogg Theora is better at low bitrates. H264 works on more devices and apps; Ogg Theora has poor adoption. It's a frustrating situation.

   So as it stands right now, to have complete browser support, you'd have to have two copies of every video for it to work for everyone. Ogg is just for Firefox; H264/MP4 is for Safari and Chrome plus IE by using a Flash player.

   If you want to add it yourself, edit mediacore/templates/helpers.html at line ~200. There, you can always get the user agent by calling h.request.environ.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT'). If you do add HTML5 support please submit a patch!

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