{"id":1977,"date":"2010-08-19T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2010-08-14T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:02:37","slug":"playing-with-video-on-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/08\/playing-with-video-on-the-ipad.htm","title":{"rendered":"Playing with video on the iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great uses for the iPad is watching video.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, it&#8217;s a reasonably large display, held close to the user and, whilst it may not replace the big flat screen in the living room for family viewing, it&#8217;s more than good enough for catching up on the normal stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I&#8217;m waiting for the BBC to release an iPlayer app for the iPad (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\/2010\/05\/bbc_iplayer_on_the_ipad.html\">iPlayer support is currently limited to streaming content<\/a>), I have some video content that I&#8217;d like to catch up on whilst disconnected from the &#8216;net.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, my iPad didn&#8217;t want to play it&#8230; until I converted the video to a suitable format.<\/p>\n<p>My first task was to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headbands.com\/gspot\/\">GSpot<\/a> (on a Windows machine) to have a look at what codecs the file used.\u00c2\u00a0 It turned out to be an XviD video\/MP3 audio file at 30fps in a .AVI container.<\/p>\n<p>According to Apple&#8217;s technical specifications, the iPad can cope with:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/ipad\/specs\/\"><p><strong>Audio playback<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz<\/li>\n<li>Audio formats supported: HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV<\/li>\n<li>User-configurable maximum volume limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TV and video<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter;\u00c2\u00a0576p and 480p with Apple\u00c2\u00a0Component\u00c2\u00a0AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple\u00c2\u00a0Composite\u00c2\u00a0AV Cable<\/li>\n<li>H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/ipad4edu.com\/questions\/83\/can-i-add-additional-video-codecs-to-ipad\">it&#8217;s not possible to install additional codecs on the iPad<\/a> (at least not on a non-jailbroken one), so the video needed to be converted to something that the iPad could handle.\u00c2\u00a0 To do this, I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divxmovies.com\/codec\/\">DivX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xvidmovies.com\/mac\/\">XviD<\/a> codecs on my Mac (although I should have just used <a href=\"http:\/\/perian.org\/\">Perian<\/a>), and used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/\">Apple QuickTime Pro<\/a> to export the video as an MP4&#8230; except it took ages and converted it to 4:3 ratio at a lower resolution and higher frame rate &#8211; not really the result I was after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered <a href=\"http:\/\/handbrake.fr\/\">Handbrake<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioncannon.net\/meta\/1040\/how-to-create-ipad-formatted-videos-using-handbrake-or-ffmpeg\/\">Handbrake doesn&#8217;t have any iPad presets yet but Carson McDonald has created some<\/a> and they worked brilliantly to create a suitable H.264\/MP4 file (there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.handbrake.fr\/viewtopic.php?f=7&amp;t=16303\">a thread on iPad encoding in the Handbrake Forums<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>When it cames to getting the video onto the iPad, I had two options: drag the the video to iTunes and sync (it then appears in the iPad&#8217;s built in Videos app); or upload the file to Dropbox and access it that way (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/help\/77\">by marking the file as a favourite, Dropbox will cache it for offline access<\/a>). Now I can catch up on my TV viewing whilst I&#8217;m disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for BBC, Channel 4, et al to step up the mark with their apps though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great uses for the iPad is watching video.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, it&#8217;s a reasonably large display, held close to the user and, whilst it may not replace the big flat screen in the living room for family viewing, it&#8217;s more than good enough for catching up on the normal stuff. 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