Oh dear, I think you are right. I just had a few goes and it didnt work. It works ok if you dont use h264.
I dunno if its an Apple mistake or if there is any wayround this problem. I have a suspicion Apple may have done it deliberately, to maek sure people use the ipod export option, and thus propagate that darn .m4v extension. Why do they always seem to take something away when they give us something new? I like the ipod conversion built into itunes but arghghg @ apple. Ive not had much time at all recently, but I will try to see if theres much on the internet about this issue. All these problems make alternatives to quicktime for encoding more interesting. However Im not sure things like iSquint have got the mpeg4 licencing stuff to be completely legitimate, dont know if that affects what advise you should put in a book. Anyway thanks for bringing up the .mp4 topic. Much of the discussion seems hto have gone back to h264 issues again, which are not strictly speaking related to the .mp4 format, oh you know how it is by now, all this detail makes simple advice hard to do sometimes. Mimetype issue will complicate things for some people getting into videoblogging and using their own servers. Most video hosting serives should be .mp4 sroted by now, some will be sorted for .m4v too. But many shared & dedicated webservers are probably still given to the customer with only older formats such as .mov in the mimetype config, requiring some fiddling. Likewise issues with people using things like Wordpress, Drupal etc. Its not hard at all for developers to add .mp4 support to a system that already handles mov and enclosures, its just that such a low proportion of users of these systems do video, that progress on this front can be overlooked for ages. Im out of date with wordpress, not tried version 2 yet, but Im saddened that Drupal hasnt got their media support module(s) very mature yet. I'll probably take a week off work soon and will try to update myself on all these issues, as I do want to get round to videoblogging one of these days. Other stuff Ive said to this list about mp4 in recent times has mostly been bemoaning a lack of progress in terms of the theoeritcal reaons to use .mp4 instead of .mov coming to fruition. Progress on alternative encoders ahs been good, but lack of alternative plugin for browser playback means that people are still tied to quicktime, wheras a beauty of .mp4 should be that people who hate quicktime can avoid it altogether. Right not they can, but not if they want to see video in the browser. DivX browser plugin is good but wont help us as their use of mpeg4 uses .avi (or .divx) container not .mp4. Cheers Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Back in November I tested out creating an mp4 file with the H.264 codec and > got them to play on my iPod by selecting the baseline profile. Today with QT > 7.0.4 I'm unable to get this to work. Has anyone got this to work recently? > Verdi > > > -- > Me: http://michaelverdi.com > R&D: http://evilvlog.com > Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org > Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
