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Video Codecs & Conversion

Antonia Hulha edited this page Aug 1, 2015 · 5 revisions

Unfortunately, the application does not convert your videos for you (yet!). In order to get the videos working, you might have to convert them yourself. For compatible codecs, see HTML5 Video Browser Support

Batch-Conversion H.264

I've written a bash-script html5VideoHandBrakeFolder.sh that loops over the contents of a given folder and converts them to H.264. It requires HandBrakeCLI.

Usage:

 ./html5VideoHandBrakeFolder.sh  directory