Tag Archives: video

How to Create iPad Formatted Videos Using HandBrake or FFMpeg

By | Published: April 13, 2010
This is for those who may want to load a video onto their iPad with iTunes that isn't in the correct format. I needed to do this because I was trying to put an iTunes University video on my iPad a couple days ago and iTunes complained that it wasn't in the correct format for [...]
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iPhone Windowed HTTP Live Streaming Server

By | Published: July 27, 2009
After some more work I have enhanced the HTTP segmenter and uploading script from my iPhone streaming using AWS S3 and Cloudfront post. I added a number of features and tried to pull together some of the ideas from the comments. I'll go over some of the features here and there is a full list [...]
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iPhone Windowed HTTP Live Streaming Using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront Proof of Concept

By | Published: July 5, 2009
This post should be seen as a proof of concept. I'm working on creating a more concise and easier to use package of everything covered here but I felt like getting the knowledge out sooner rather than later would be of help to people looking for a way to do this. If you are interested [...]
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iPhone HTTP Streaming with FFMpeg and an Open Source Segmenter

By | Published: June 28, 2009
With the release of the iPhone OS 3 update came the ability to do live streaming. There are a few types of streaming and each requires a certain encoding and segmentation. I've put together a cheat sheet on how I went about building a static stream using FFMpeg and an example segmenter that someone has [...]
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Converting videos (flv,wmv,avi,etc) into a format that will work with the iPhone/iTunes

By | Published: December 27, 2008
I have had an iPhone for a while now and I keep running into instances where I want to have videos outside of youtube in some format that I can watch on the device. These include windows WMV formatted videos from PDC as well as FVL formatted videos on Flex. I finally broke down and [...]
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