Still janky after all these years!
I gave up after several attemps to embed my YouTube video on this blog and have it play back in my iPhone’s Safari browser. I went through this once befor about a year ago but it looks like I still didn’t learn a thing. I guess I got cocky being that I was able to embed a few YouTube videos, some of which were my own, but today proved to be most troubling. The Brightkite video posted below refused to play or even display a thumbnail. Odd because after uploading it to YouTube it did play….but only once followed by a broken video thumbnail. I uploaded it several more times in an attemp to shake something loose but it was a no-go. I also re-encoded the video from scratch but that was of no help.
I ended up posting the video to an outside source - twitvid.com. The video quality is awesome over at twitvid.com, much better than YouTube. But the embedded link provided by twitvid still remains a useless boken video link in the eye of my iPhone browser when posted to my blog. Some how others are able to record, upload, embed, post, and play back video without issue from their iPhones. With me it’s hit or miss and lately it’s been mostly….miss!
If the iPhone is unable to correctly encode it’s own video in a format that YouTube understands then I may have to pick up a copy of QuickTime Pro. I don’t wanna - but I gotta because I’m itching to post more video but I want it posted to my blog, not another 3rd party site.
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