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(For deeper information on HLS and iOS video, be sure to download our guide to iOS video, which goes into more detail about HTTP Live Streaming and iOS video delivery.) General settings
Iphone video playback settings how to#
We're going to start publishing our recommendations to our blog and to our docs in an effort to help Zencoder customers (and non-customers) make good decisions about how to encode video for a wide range of targets: mobile devices, Flash, Silverlight, HTML5, connected devices, and more. At Zencoder, we get asked for encoding recommendations all the time, and we end up recommending the same (or similar) settings over and over. This article is the first in a series of encoding recommendations. We've written about this before but our previous guide only described how to ensure mobile compatibility - not how to find the best settings. Fortunately, with just a few encoding profiles, you can stream high quality video to every iOS device, from the first iPhone to the iPad 2, and even prepare for future generations of mobile hardware. iOS devices have gone through several generations of technical capabilities, and the ideal video settings for the iPhone 4 are not ideal for the iPhone 3GS or for the iPad. Encoding for iOS is a little tricky, though.

For some major publishers, iPad delivery represents 1/3 of total video views - or more. Any serious video publisher either already supports iPad and iPhone, or needs to think hard about adding support. You already know this, but iOS video is a big deal.
