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Vikalp Jain

Vikalp Jain has written 3 posts for blog.credera.com

Using FFMpeg to Encode Movies for the iPhone

By ⋅ December 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

FFmpeg (http://www.ffmpeg.org/) is a great tool for encoding movies in any format and works nicely for encoding movies for the iPhone. The main issue we ran into was finding the right parameters for FFMpeg. As is the case with most open source projects, the documentation for FFMpeg is sparse. From Apple’s documentation we knew the [...]

DivX Component for QuickTime not compatible with iPhone Simulator

By ⋅ December 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

If you updated your iPhone SDK to 2.2 and find that movies no longer play in the iPhone Simulator, it is probably because of the QuickTime DivX component. With the most recent SDK (2.2) this particular component is incompatible with the iPhone Movie Player. You will likely see a message like: Error loading /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX [...]

Provisioning Profiles on the iPhone

By ⋅ December 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Setting up XCode correctly with the provisioning profiles turns out to be more difficult that it ought to be. The most confusing aspect is that the configuration settings need to be identical for both the project and the target. To get to the project level settings you would right click on the project and select [...]