Will Your Videos Play On The Kindle Fire?
Last week Amazon released their much talked about new tablet, the Kindle Fire. A lot of the press surrounding the Kindle Fire was focused on how it fares against the iPad. But it’s not truly an iPad competitor, as technically, it’s like comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). In short, the iPad is like a Mercedes while the Kindle Fire is like a Hyundai.
What is important is the fact that Amazon has priced the Kindle Fire at just $199 and a lot of people are buying it (some reports say 4 million will be sold in the first quarter of it’s availability). And with that many eyeballs on the Kindle Fire, it’s important to make sure your web video will play on it.
And in the video above, I share exactly what you need to know for making your web videos playable on the Kindle Fire.
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Great info and to the point. Thanks!
What’s the easiest method/software/player for HTML 5 embed code?
(aside from Video Rebel)
Thanks
Howard
Videorebel handles these issues, right?
Thanks for the helpful info. I will be continuing to tune in to get your relevant tips. Where do we get the encode for HTML 5. I use Final Cut Studio and it is not one of the formats listed on the export tab. Do we buy it as an aftermarket software? Or do we export it as QT and then send it through another converter. Thanks again for the good teaching and helpful info.
Jim
I too would like to know how to get my videos into an HTML5 format. If I want my videos to play on Windows machines, Mac machines, ipad and amazons Kindle Fire, what do I need to do? Is there one simple way or do I have to pay monthly fees for someone to do the conversions so that my videos can play everywhere?
Are you still using the beauty light? Nice lighting.
And .. out of your large library of cameras, which one do
you reach for when you shoot these videos? Thanks .
Thanks Dave, straight to the point, as always. as Rob asks, can you please elaborate on how to get those videos into an html5 format?
Tobi – HTML5 isn’t a video format. It’s an extension of HTML that happens to have a embedding tag. The video then plays in your viewer’s browser or player – not yours.
The format you’d want would probably be MP4, using a profile of “baseline” and level of “3″.
If you’re doing a bunch of web video that also needs to play on iPads, Kindle Fire, iPhones, etc., I highly recommend Dave’s very reasonably priced course on doing mobile video. He shows you how to create a single video format that plays on almost all devices as well as in web browsers – and it includes a thorough discussion of embed code, including HTML5′s tag. He doesn’t specifically discuss the Fire because it came out shortly after he authored this course, but the concepts would be the same.
I meant to say “…it’s an extension of HTML that happens to have a video tag that functions like simple embed code.”