Vimeo launches iphone support

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Flash doesn’t work on iphones. Big problem as the decent video hosting sites are all flash. Heck, my own site is all flash!

Well all know Youtube is iphone friendly, but there is some much junk of there! Vimeo, the premiere HD video sharing site,  has just announced the start of iphone support. First off they have encoded staff picks and the HD channel into MP4 friendly versions. Next up will be Vimeo Plus users get it and then we will have an app.

Vimeo announced it on CNET today…with my little “San Francisco’s People” featured.

It looks great on the iphone. To see it copy and paste (or just clink this link to see it) http://vimeo.com/m/#/7260115

Here are some iphone screen grabs from it….I have to say it looks bloody awesome and when we can download videos directly from it even better!!

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15 comments

  1. It also works on Android phones. It has a bit of a problem with the popup login window, but after you get past that it looks good and the video is smooth too.

    I need to test it with Nokia Symbian phones too, since they are able to playback that MP4 format without sweating too.

  2. Ok, the Symbian phones don’t seem to work properly. They open the mobile page, but the CSS doesn’t load and consequently the “play” button doesn’t appear. I will try to do a bug report with Vimeo about this, since many Europeans have such Symbian phones, and besides, these phones are able to playback that video format easily.

  3. With Apple and Adobe not playing nice over Flash support I was worried we would never get Vimeo on the iPhone so this is excellent news indeed. Picture and sound seem just as good as stuff I have downloaded and re-encoded.

    I watched San Francisco’s People again and another I picked at random off the list called “the restless debt of third world beauty” which is well worth a look.

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