The iPhone's Challenge to Mobile Video

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Author: Troy Dreier

The Apple iPhone is a major player in the mobile Internet space, but the iPhone still doesn't support Flash, which means it can't display most of the video available online. What's a hardworking video site to do?

Until the folks in Cupertino decide to allow the iPhone's Safari browser to display Flash content, online video sites really only have one option if they want to reach iPhone users: re-encode their entire library in a compatible format.

That's what how-to site MonkeySee.com did with its 8,000 multi-segment titles. Just this week it made its entire library available to iPhone users in high-bitrate streaming HD.

That might sound like a lot of work, but according to Greg Letourneau, the CEO of Knowlera Media (parent company to MonkeySee.com), the site's automation system made it easy.

Click here for full story at Web Video Universe.


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