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Originally Posted by tatyana
...and Flash video is now H.264 as well, just in their container. And if the iPad sees the flash version of the file, it will not play it. And Youtube has released an HTML 5 version of their site with H.264 versions of all the videos, I read about it on Cnet recently.
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You can create a basic H.264 file in an MP4 container that will play on most everything, including Flash. These should work on the iPad and iPhone, too. The MP4 container format is about as universal as it gets, and coupled with H.264 video AAC audio would have a wide audience.
You'd write your HTML to use HTML5 if you chose to put your "MP4" video in a windowed player on your site, the way most Flash players work. HTML5 is not required to play these videos if the platform has a video player that supports it, and virtually all do.
There are several examples on the Web of fallback code that will first try Flash, then HTML5, and finally provide a link for playing the video in whatever player is associated with MP4 files.