I was wondering how to embed a video on a webpage to have it compatible with mobile devices. I am kinda new to the whole mobileweb. So I set up some testing pages and tried them out with some devices of my friends. Flash is obviously not the way to go. Embed tag neither. html5 video tag neither. I also tried to nest them for fallback compatibility but just didn’t get it right.
So I had a look at youtube. They are using rtsp streams and they just let the device handle the rtsp:// links. This seemed to be working everywhere, and I think they do it for a reason. So I had a look at rtsp protocol the possibilities to serve such a stream.
Turned out its really simple and doesn’t really differ much from the http protocol. There is e.g. ffserver out there for that.
But every free/os implementation seems to be testing/buggy …
So I ask you guys. I cant be the first stumbling across this problem.
Isn’t there a nice tested way to embed videos with nice compatibility for mobile devices? preferably served from a http source!
looks like html5 is the way to go but important are the correct encoding settings.
h264, baseline 1.3 seems to work fine with iphone4 and android 2.1 … rest untested.