[x264-devel] Generating H264 for iPad?

[Hadmut Danisch]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:20:56PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> you need baseline profile!
> 
> iphones are refusing videos with main-profile completly


So this is what makes the difference whether iPad can use it's
hardware acceleration or not?


Which command line options would I have to give ffmpeg to use this
profile? (didn't find anything about in man page)


Any disadvantages or other problems to expect when using baseline
profile?



regards
Hadmut