Play video on the android recorded from the iPhone

Question

I am writing video based social app for iOS and android(WinPhone is under waiting). I recorded video in mov format using AVFoundation framework on the iPhone and uploaded it to

Answer 1

• Blog post @Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War...For Now
  1. Android uses the flash plugin, and apple uses HLS
  2. Today’s wide usage of the HLS protocol is a result of iOS success. Apple designated the protocol as the one and only way to stream video to an iOSDevice. No Flash, no Silverlight, no RTP or RTSP.
• Q&A post @Best format for Mobile Video states
  1. MPEG-4 will play on all mobile phones (at least those capable)
  2. it also plays while buffers vs .mov which requires the whole movie to download first before playing.
• StackOverflow post @Video Format that Works on Mobile Phones
  1. I haven't come a cross one single mobile that doesn't support the MPEG-4 container format, including blackberry.
  2. We tested a variety of Android devices and all of the recent models (Android 2.2/2.3) do support MPEG 4/H.264, the same goes for iPhone and AFAIK the Windows Phone.
• Software Product info @Choosing a movie format
  1. If it needs to play back on mobile devices. Choose MPEG-4 format can be played back on iDevices and Android phones.
  2. Alot more info can be found @Choosing a movie format
• Acceleration of MPEG-4 applications @FZi Forshcungzentrum INformatik
  1. The whole MPEG-4 encoding/decoding process is partitioned between the standard processor, which is controlling the system and executes control-intensive algorithms, and its XPP coprocessor, which executes the computational-intensive data-flow algorithms and sends the results back to the host processor.

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From this information, I suggest you convert to the MPEG-4 format.

1. MPEG-4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. MPEG-4.net - The Streaming Media Technology Resource

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Mac app-store free video converters:

1. Miro Video Converter (MVC)
2. Smart Converter
3. Any Video Converter Lite
4. WonTube Free Video Converter