Not long ago I seen a tweet by Ed Dale, here is the link, It was how Trey Smith got HTML5 working on an iPad, I have been able to do this also!
Here how I have done my set up, I saw a tweet (sorry can’t remeber who it was), but it was along the lines that LongTail Video, had an Beta version of they’re really nice Flash Player, JW Player, I was on the home page on LongTail Video, and I seen this link to a service called Bits On The Run & I thought, nice service, I think I’ll give the free trail a go and see what it was like, it was only when I was on the inside, I saw the video you upload to the service was in H.264, which if you don’t know already, is the recommended format for HD Video playback on the web.
BINGO!Now before we go on, let me tell you what Bits On The Run does for you as a service.
It will host (although, you can plugin your Amazon S3 account), stream & encode! I knew I was onto something when I saw what the service does and the fact that you can upload H.264(HD) Video.
I don’t have an iPad but I do have a iPod, these two gadget run the iPhone OS 3 Software so I was almost certern that If the video I uploaded to the service played on my iPod, it would play on an ipad.
I really am not that sure how you get a H.264 video but as the service encodes the video as well I think you would be able to upload say a Flash video and it will spit out a H.264 video for you! Even less work for you!
So here is how I would use the serive for your iPad videos.
Get you video ready for upload, I am using a trial version of Camtasia and as I am on a Netbook I have to flip the screen 90°s (it’s on it’s side) like so:
You’ll notice how narrow it is compared to to the height, now if I try to do this in the normal way I wouldn’t be able to see the buttons on the screen! Handy tip!
Once you have your video encoded, you can begin to upload your video.
Log in & You will see on the video tab there is a video upload link, click the link. it will display a dialog box, find you video file and click Save.
Give your video time to upload you’ll see this screen next:
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You can pick a Player size from the dorop down box & click Regenerate embad codes, this then gives you the embed code for your web site like below:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://content.bitsontherun.com/players/aOiQEgef-bbid4B4z.js”></script>
Now for this to work on a blog you’ll want to click on the HTML tab so you can enter the code otherwise it will appear like it does above! For a normal HTML editor you want to do the same thing find where you enter Raw HTML not text but HTML code.
Hey Presto You now have videos that can be played on an iPad!!!
Hugh
BTW Here is link to the Bits On The Run. It is a stright link, none affiliated!