If you embed the video in HTML then this problem goes away and any
user should be able to see your content properly as long as they have
Quicktime installed.

An easy way to do this is to use the popup window method that I created:
< http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker >

The reasons for doing this are explained here:
< http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php >

This handles all browser incompatibilities with encountered by direct
linking to the video files.

-Josh


On 2/3/06, David Meade <meade.dave@...> wrote:
> Yeah, you can download .mov files to your ipod as long as they are
> encoded with the correct MP4 or H.264 settings.
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> Yes, .movs can have all sorts of formats inside them.
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> The drawbacks of using .mp4 on your blog, so far as I can tell, is
> simply that some computers out there (at leas in the windows side of
> things) still get confused with how to deal with it. I have the
> latest iTunes on my PCs and yet each still handles mp4s differently
> ... and painfully in at least one case. This problem is however
> getting better all the time.
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> At the moment my preference is to provide a .mov that is encoded for
> the iPod. All of my computers see .mov and know what to do with it.
> QuickTime. It's easy to embed in html and its compatible with the
> ipod. Seems to do it all. :-)
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> just my $0.02
> - Dave
> http://www.davidmeade.com
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> On 2/3/06, aroundtheperimeter <aroundtheperimeter@...> wrote:
> > Ok. I made sure to read all the posts on the video ipod. I also
> > checked out all the links that where provided. I'm still confused
> > about the whole process. I want my subscribers to be able to download
> > my videos to there ipods without having to convert it.
> >
> > Now I now on the apple site it says this:
> >
> > * By following the steps in this tutorial, QuickTime 7 Pro will
> > automatically create an .m4v file containing H.264 video and AAC
> > audio. iPod can play the following video formats:
> > * H.264 video
> > File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
> > Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second,
> > Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3
> > Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
> > * MPEG-4 video
> > File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
> > Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second,
> > Simple Profile
> > Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
> >
> > So if you have .mov can it be downloaded to an Ipod?
> >
> > Or do the users have to convert the .mov into mp4 to use it iPod?
> >
> > If your file format is not H.264 or MPEG-4 then it won't work on the
> > ipod?
> >
> > I guess you can save .mov file in different file formats other than
> > H.264 or MPEG-4. Is this true?
> >
> > What are the draw backs of using a .mp4 file on your vlog?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Oh. I'm thinking about getting a mac so i will be using iMovie to edit
> > my movies.
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