HTML5 Video won't play on my ipad or iphone.

A video I encoded for mp4 and built in HTML5 won't play on my ipad or iphone.
It plays fine on Safari on MacBook as well as Google Chrome on Windows7, both in the HTML5 player.
I have encoded the mp4 in a program called HandBrake using H.264 for video and AAC for Audio and the device set to ipad (I also tried iphone).
URL is timken.com/sites/momentoftrust/en-us/documents/html5.html
The video is at timken.com/sites/momentoftrust/en-us/documents/maddy_ipad.mp4
I am just stumped as to why the video plays fine in the HTML5 container on a MacBook using Safari but will not play on the ipad or iphone.

Slamb0513-
The video you have at the html5.html URL is different from the other, but it also plays when downloaded and transferred to the iPad.
I didn't examine your html5.html file. I take it you are not hand-encoding, but using a program that does that for you. Here is the html line I used to download one of your files:
<LI> <A HREF="http://timken.com/sites/momentoftrust/en-us/Documents/pr6.mp4">MP4 Test</A>
I downloaded the mp4 file by right-clicking the URL and selecting Download Linked File As. Just clicking the URL plays the video on the Mac Pro's Safari, but I don't know how to test it on the iPad.
Fred
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