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YouTube, iPhone, Flash and H.264 Issues Unresolved [UPDATED]
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 4:00 PM - by John Martellaro
Now that Apple has announced YouTube content on Apple TV, the question arises as to whether another Mac OS X-based system, the iPhone, will also be able to view that content.
Mac Format asked that question on Thursday, and it has to do with the details of how Safari in the iPhone will handle Flash as well as whether and how future YouTube content will be converted from Flash to H.264 for streaming on Apple TV.
Apple executives were asked after the Macworld 2007 Keynote about Safari on the iPhone. Everyone was told in the Keynote that this is real, full-blown Safari, but the executives evaded a question about viewing Flash content.
It’s possible that, even then, they knew that the most important Flash-based site on the planet might be changing over to H.264, so Flash on the iPhone would be moot. Perhaps backwards compatibility for Flash on the iPhone is also being planned.
The details of how all this will work are still not exactly clear, and iPO will update this article as more information becomes available.
[UPDATE: A communication from a YouTube spokesperson confirms that "videos on YouTube are on the H.264 format. In addition, Apple does not provide a converter as YouTube handles the conversions and stores the videos on the site."
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