Vimeo Videos Watchable on iPhone / iPod Touch and Android Device
Apple iPhone OS does not support Flash-based video. To overcome this problem,, Google and Apple have to re-encode YouTube video to play in a separate app. Until now only YouTube videos can play. Today, YouTube rival, Vimeo is launching support for users on iPhone/iPod Touch and Google Android devices.
Unlike YouTube, Vimeo only re-encode its staff picks and HD video showcase, which are the most visited.
"We’ve been working on it for the last few weeks," Blake Whitman, Vimeo’s director of community told CNET News. "This is sort of the prelude of offering Plus members iPhone support; and in the future, an app," he said. In the meantime, the only member videos that get chosen to get the mobile encoding treatment are those that get picked by the site’s editors. "In the future, like the next several weeks–maybe longer, we’ll be offering Plus users the option to transcode their videos to an iPhone version too." Whitman says those special encodes could end up as a download option alongside the links to the source file, letting users save a copy that could be played back offline.
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