Encoding Video for Android
In my previous post, Making HTML5 Video work on Android phones, I said that you have to encode your videos as .m4v
in order for them to work in Android. This isn’t actually correct. The suffix can be either .mp4
or .m4v
, what matters is the way the video is encoded.
Now, there are loads of blog and forum posts which give differing advice on presets and parameters, and I’m no expert – so what I’ll do is just show you two quick ways that worked for me (I have a Samsung Galaxy S).