Blip.tv embedded videos now compatible with iPhone!
By Will Park on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 10:17 AM PST In Announcements, Apple, Videos, iPhone, iPhone OS
While Adobe works on porting their Flash 10 client to Android and other ARM-based smartphones, Steve Jobs is still adamantly keeping Flash from ever hitting the iPhone or iPhone 3G. Without an official Flash solution on the iPhone, many embedded videos are out of reach for video-consuming iPhone users. Today, Blip.tv is changing the game by making their embedded videos iPhone-compatible.
Sure, embedded YouTube videos are, for the most part, viewable on the iPhone. But, aside from YouTube, embedded videos are largely out of reach for iPhone users. That’s where Blip.tv’s .m4v QuickTime stream comes in.
Blip.tv has announced that, thanks to a bit of “magic,” they’ve come up with a way to get their embedded videos onto iPhone and iPhone 3G displays. Blip CEO Mike Hudack told Wired.com:
“We think it’s very important that iPhone users be able to enjoy a full Web experience, including video playback. Just as important, show creators should be able to distribute video everywhere that people watch video. This is a meaningful step forward.”
Blip.tv works their “magic” by redirecting iPhone users to a special version of the embedded video, coded in the .m4v QuickTime format that is supported by the iPhone OS. Newly uploaded videos will be converted into the .m4v QuickTime format, but previously uploaded videos will have to be manually updated by their publisher to support iPhone-viewing.
View the below video on your desktop or iPhone.
[Via: Wired]
The video doesn’t show up on my iphone–i see the missing plugin icon instead of a video I can click on (as I normally see with youtube videos).
I see that if you go to blip.tv that you can view the videos on the iphone, but if you go to any other website that has the blip embed code you can not view it.
So the redirect is only working on the Blip site, not the cross-posting sites?
I know one solution is to go to my Blip dashboard and choose mp4 as my preference, but I don’t want to do that.
Is there another solution?