[Tig] encoding for quicktime/web

[Jack James]

Did you save it with a .mp4 extension? that usually works and then it
normally depends on the browser side of things

On 02/02/07, Rob Lingelbach <rob at colorist.org> wrote:
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> please excuse this being a little off-topic, but it does have to do with
> the TIG server.
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> it's been a while since I messed around with mime-types for apache
> and browser playback.  I have a Mac Powerbook G4 running OS X
> 10.4.8.   I tried to encode, using one of the freeware rippers, a video
> file that would play back in Quicktime 7.1.3.   Trying to play it back,
> I was informed that some essential parts of Quicktime were missing,
> and was directed to a website, which contained about 5 commercial
> products for use with Quicktime.
>
> I found one that worked to encode for MPEG4, the product is called
> VisualHub (i have no connection with this product, and it is offered
> as a demo for 30 days).  It worked for me to play back the video stream
> in Quicktime, after I encoded it with H.264 and at 320 pixels, medium
> quality.
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> now the subject turns to mime-types.  I uploaded the encoded video to
> my server, and noticed that apache 2.x does not identify a mime-type of
> video/mp4.   So I added it to /etc/mime.types and restarted apache.
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> Instead of a nice video playing via quicktime, I get binary garbage
> in the
> browser.
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> Can someone advise (I've done a day's worth of googling to no avail)
> how best to set up the mime-types, or a better encoding scheme to use
> with
> VisualHub (it offers: iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, Flash...)
>
> thanks a lot in advance.
> Rob
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