Hi Derby:

On my Safari it's taking forever to download, but I have crappy internet--very 
slow.  Didn't make it all the way through, but what I saw looked nice.  Was 
able to do full screen and heard a bit of sound.  Cheers, Christine





On Jan 3, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> This will probably be old news to some. TIL, HTML5 video embedding sounds 
> promising, but ain't here yet. I know I'm a n00b at this, but does it really 
> need to be this hard? Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted.
> 
> * Chrome works fine, even with just the basic video tag. Chrome also seems to 
> stream much better than IE or FF, which are really stuttery to play. I have 
> the preload option on.
> * IE worked eventually after adding a few meta cryptic tags and re-encoding 
> in H.264. Unfortunately, my slideshow maker (ProShow Producer) squirts out 
> video in xvid codec. So I had to re-encode it.
> * Firefox was disappointing. No H.264 support out of the box; had to install 
> the WMP plugin to get it to work. There seems to be a workaround to double 
> encode in OGG which I'd do that if I had the space.
> * Can't test Safari or Opera, so I hope this works.
> 
> Does anyone know how to tweak the 'control' option to have full-screen 
> available on IE and Firefox? Only seems to be available for Chrome. Its a 
> 1080 file, so it's a shame it can't be viewed that way.
> 
> On a side note, I thought I'd kill two tech birds with one stone. Adorama 
> gave me 20GB with Pogoplug for free, for life. I tried uploading the video 
> file to save room on my personal sitespace. But darn it crawls along with 
> uploading, and not that great downloading either. Will do further 
> investigations.
> 
> Anyhoo, here is my first '5 vid
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/01/intimate_show/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> Oh, happy new year, everyone. Hope you stayed out of trouble.
> 
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