blackberry browser - video format - html

It looks like the browser on a Blackberry doesn't support either HTML 5 or Flash...
What's the best format to display video in it?
Thanks

BrowserSession is useful to paly video and audio formats in Blackberry.Visit following
links useful for you.
BlackBerry - Play mp4 video from remote server.
If you need information about Browser session the following link might help you.
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/11844/Browser_session_management_438294_11.jsp

You would use the object tag e.g.
<object data=FILENAME type=MIMETYPE>
You can see the supported video formats on different phones here (PDF).
Source

Latest version of blackberry (from 6.0). but however it is not that intelligent to play videos efficiently.
Is your application using native code ? If yes, then go for manual player or invoke default browser which has capability to play videos. I have done the same way for you tube videos.

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Best way of posting a video to a html website

I want to post some mp4 videos in my site and I don't want to upload it to youtube or any 3rd party web app which will let me embed it into my website. I also don't want to use any blogging system like wordpress, drupal. So then what is the best way to post it to my site so that most devices will be able to view it. And can I customize the player which I use?
I have seen w3schools html5 video but I didn't find it helpful. I have also seen ' Video onto a website without plugins ' but I am not satisfied with that.
[Hint: I am ready to convert my video into any format required.]
Thanks in advance.
I have used video.js for this purpose, it worked for me. I haven't tried editing it much, but it has options.
http://www.videojs.com
Use the HTML 5 video element. You'll have to upload your video in different formats, since there is no video format that is supported by all browsers, but support for the video element itself is quite good. IE8 doesn't support it, but IE8 is already very old. With the video tag you don't need Javascript or flash plugins.
For an overview of browser support see CanIUse. Another source with much detailed information about video formats and how to convert them is DiveIntoHTML5.info.

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I need some help/suggestion . I'm building a website using PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS and I'm stuck at a point.
I have few queries regarding Audio and Video capture from webcam using HTML5.
Is it possible to capture audio and video (Audio and Video means , audio separately, video which will record the audio too [for an example say some one is singing]) from webcam using html5 and PHP or JavaScript code and store it at local pc or in a Live servers pace where I want to ?
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Can anyone help?
You can rent a server with Flash Media such as www.influxis.com and develop the capture part using flash.
HTML5 supports getUserMedia, as documented at http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html
A good article on this (including examples that actually work, with code) is available here http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/

Smooth streaming on browser with HTML5

I am trying to figure out if it is possible to stream smooth streaming video on browser using HTML5? After several trial on IE, Chrome and Firefox, it is still without success. It seems like smooth streaming only works with SilverLight client or some smoothstreaming application.
Below is the video tag I use:
<video controls="controls"
src="http://smoothhd.code-shop.com/video/oceans.ssm/Manifest"
poster="poster.jpg"></video>
Does anyone know if I have done anything incorrect or it is just not possible to play it with HTML5?
It is not currently playable in a browser. It is playable within an HTML5 Metro app.
Read for how to do it in a Metro app: http://blogs.iis.net/cenkd/archive/2012/03/28/How-to-build-your-first-html5-metro-style-smooth-streaming-player.aspx
You can embed a Silverlight player, which will play that link (if the server has proper crossdomain.xml file).
It's not an equivalent solution of course, but anyway smth that might give you what you're looking for.

Into how many video formats should I convert uploaded videos to play in all media types?

I am planning on video upload capability on a public website.
I am not going with Flash instead going with HTML5 using MediaElement.js
My goal is to make sure that processed videos play on browser and all smart devices
I used to convert uploaded videos to flv file to play using flash.
I will use FFMPEG to convert uploaded videos to the target format.
My question is how many different format do I need to process\convert the uploaded files?
You will need at least 2 for the HTML5 video element. You need to supply a H264 and either Ogg or WebM. See Wikipedia for the supported codexs.
I have never used MediaElement.js but it look like they can work with either of the two formats in browsers that don't support the element.
if you want to play everything via HTML5 then YES, you do need 2 video-files for each video, as explained by Maurice.
BUT: You could use the Flash-fallback and only use mp4 videos (MEJS will take care of Flash). That way it plays on iOS, many Android devices and chrome, safari and IE9 via HTML5 - Firefox and Opera users will see the Flash-player.

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I want to embed an audio player into my web page with a playlist feature. How can I do this?
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The (somewhat clunky) Microsoft way of doing it: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/windows-media/streaming/embed.html
Using an audio player that's not proprietary is good UI practice. For instance, Flash isn't available on all user's computers. WMV (which the windows example uses) is a very windows-centric format, and may not be supported to some linux or mac users. Many people don't run quick time, so the AAC format might not be a great format to embed.
You should probably use Windows Media Metafiles.