I agree with Dave below -and I think you have a choice to make 1) incorporate html5 into your posts, with a simple fallback to YouTube - thereby losing some YT views 2) just have a separate h264 download link under the YouTube - which will work fine for the iPad etc crew
Having messed with html 5 - the latter is my solution - in fact I serve my own lo-fi flash and then offer choices of both youtube and iPod links under - see http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=777 for an extreme case, as it has ogv, stills, mp3, and ogg too - presumably an iPad user clicking thru to youtube would get served the (best of all choices) html 5 720p h264.. I don't actually bother with podcasting with stuff that's as long form as this, but podpress and feed burner works, and the feedburner subscribe-by-email option is definitely worth exploring As mentioned on this list recently longtail has launched a new player you might want to look at http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-html5 As far as podcast format goes qtpro's ipod export function defaults to 1.5mpbs 640x480 or 640x360 depending on your aspect ratio. j On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:27 AM, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, sdorfman.rm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What wordpress plugin(s) would you recommend to accomplish the >> following?: >> >> 1. by default, show the youtube version of a video (i want the >> numbers boost to "times viewed" on youtube to help make the videos more >> popular) > > You don't need any plug-in to accomplish this, simply post the > embedded HTML code for the Youtube clip in your blog post. > I don't use the Wordpress player, I just embed the Youtube HTML code. > >> 2. create an itunes-friendly rss feed so people can find and >> subscribe to the video podcast via itunes. (also, i plan to run the feed >> thru feedburner.) > > I use Podpress Plugin and Google Feedburner. > That and Podcasting Plugin by TSG are the two most popular I believe. > >> 3. when an iphone or ipad or other device without flash views the >> site, show an html5 version of the H.264 video > > No idea, sorry. > I've had no complaints from any of my viewers about this. > About 1/3rd of my audience watch via the podcast version, but no > complaints about not being to view the web site. > >> Additional notes: >> >> * I would like to only encode the videos once to H.264 640x480 and >> upload them to both youtube & archive.org >> * archive.org will be the source for the video links from the podcast >> feed > > 640x480 is quite a big podcast size. I use 480x270 16:9 format for the > podcast version (encoded at either 200 or 250 kbps), and 1280x720 16:9 > for the Youtube version. > I use Handbrake to convert the videos to suitable MP4, M4V format > > My site is www.eevblog.com if you want to see how I do things. > > Dave. > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com Secretary - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org ---------------------------------------------------------------
