I thought my plan is pretty straightforward. Take a screencast from my nexus4 with adb, upload it to my webserver and embed it into a html5 video tag.
But it took me about 7 hours to get the video (a perfectly valid mp4) working in Internet Exporer 11.
creating the video:
$ adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/test.mp4
$ adb pull /sdcard/test.mp4 .
140 KB/s (6001 bytes in 0.041s)
[steininr:~]↥ $ ffprobe test.mp4
...
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x199e700] decoding for stream 0 failed
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'test.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isom3gp4
creation_time : 2014-05-23 09:04:25
Duration: 00:00:00.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Baseline ... 768x1280, DAR 3:5 ...
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-05-23 09:04:25
handler_name : VideoHandle
The result is a mp4 in portrait orientation, which works in Firefox 29, but not in IE11. After hours of trying to convert the video with ffmpeg, I accidentally recorded a video in landscape orientation.
ffprobe for landscape video:
$ ffprobe test.mp4
...
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'test.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isom3gp4
creation_time : 2014-05-23 09:20:20
Duration: 00:00:06.11, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3160 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Baseline ... 1280x768, DAR 5:3 ...
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-05-23 09:20:20
handler_name : VideoHandle
It differs from the first video in two ways. The resolution 1280x768 ( before: 768x1280 ) and the aspect ratio 5:3 ( before: 3:5 ). The crazy thing: The video works in IE11.
What the Fuck!
After playing around with different resolution and aspect ratios, I found out that IE11 can not play html5 videos with heights greater than 1088 pixels.
For whatever reason 652x1088 works ... while 652x1090 does not.
Edit 26.5.2014: Finally I've found the following link MS H.264 Decoder. The site describes, that the Microsoft H.264 Decoder (Windows 7) supports a maximum resolution of 1920 × 1088 pixels.
converting to < 1088:
$ ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -vcodec h264 -b:v 1500k -filter:v scale=512:854 -preset main -preset slow -g 30 bondroid.mp4
