Go to Media > Convert/Save, add the file to be converted, and choose Convert from the selection at the bottom. Update: I was using VLC for Linux, but the OSX version seems to be quite different. It involves more set-up the first time around, but will be easier with each subsequent conversion. The second method is also cross-platform, and uses VLC (I’m using version 1.1.1, not sure if older versions work the same). You can see the result of that below (if your browser supports it). You’ll also need to change the size of the output video in the Picture Settings options - I changed mine to 480 wide (keeping the aspect ratio) and they came out really crisp and sharp. What I did with this was to use the iPhone & iPod Touch preset, check the Web Optimized option, and change the Average bitrate option (in the Quality section) to ~1000kbps (you should then save this as a new preset called Android). The first is cross-platform, using Handbrake. 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).Ī couple of things to note: this post refers specifically to video embedded in web pages with the video element, so the other two requirements from my previous blog post still stand also, the methods shown below should mean your videos play on iOS too, so you don’t have to encode for different platforms. m4v, what matters is the way the video is encoded.

m4v in order for them to work in Android. In my previous post, Making HTML5 Video work on Android phones, I said that you have to encode your videos as.

Android video codec