I have seen several sites where they are able to create links to videos and they actually open on the video player of the iPhone, iPad or iPod.
This is obviously not a flash player video, and they don't seem to be embedded from youtube.
So I was wondering how can I add a video on my site that can be opened on an iPhone, and also what type of format is required for this?
Thanks
HTML5 Video works on iOS devices, see http://html5video.org
and here is a decent player plugin
http://videojs.org
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Trying the SDK from the smart tv alliance, I worry about it not playing videos in the vbox.
The menu and browser works well, but e.g. when trying the video sample project within SDK, it does not play videos there. => screen remains black in the content area...
It's a smart tv virtualization, so I hope it supports video playback and is not a missing feature (as in some android simulators).
It's exactly like a normal site or HTML document...
Add your video like you would do normally.
The SDK emulator does not supprot much formats to be played except of the mp4 progressive download. What exactly are you trying to stream?
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Hi all im trying to load youtube/Dailymotion video using the iframe method in my phonegap app on iphone but everytime i play the video the alert message popsup saying this movie could not be played please help
Have you tried playing a non-commercial video, like a tutorial or something? If that plays you know at least that it is possible to play certain videos. There may be restrictions for playing some videos.
I have been doing some research into what is possible, as far as I can tell
Autoplay
Possible to autostart videos on early versions of IOS http://www.codeblog.co/getting-autoplay-working-on-ios/ although this no longer works on current version (exact version it stopped working I don't know). Behaviour seems to be the same on both the iPad and iPhone?
Playing video in page
On the iPhone videos always pop out to player, its not possible to play in page.
However is possible to play videos in page on the iPad - have tried out the videos on here and they do play inline.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/video/basics/
Playing as intro video
May be able to do an enter now button for the site with below code to trigger
<input type="button" value="Play" onClick="document.myMovie.play()">
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009523-CH5-SW10
Could then on iPad make this take the full screen in page in website and use js to detect when the video finishes. Am thinking on iPhone may not be possible to detect when video finishes?
Can anyone clarify what is possible?
As much as I know intro video aren't too popular, this is a requirement for the site.
Automatic play is not possible on iOS as fas sa I'm aware. They removed support on purpose to stop people from doing it.
Any playback now requires the user to actually specify for the video to play, so providing a button to play it should be fine?
Can't you keep your video in the bundle and play it with MPMovieePlayer.Then you won't need to autoplay the video,the video will be played autometically itself.As I do the same thing.
I have an app which requires the Youtube videos and Audio Podcasts to be played inside my app and not giving out control to youtube player or safari.
What is the method that can be used to embed Youtube videos and Audio Podcasts into my iphone app?
Any tutorials about the above issue are most desirable as I am new into this.
Please give ur suggestions.
Your suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in Advance!!
If you want to embed and play videos inside your app then copy videos to your app's resource folder(.mp4 or .m4v format is desired) and use MPMoviePlayerViewController class instance to play the video. :)
I want to make a youtube app like application for the iphone, where some videos are streamed/downloaded from a video site. But just by looking at the youtube app, I have a doubt.
I searched around on google, and it seems iphone does not have builtin support to play flv files. So how is the youtube app able to play the videos? Where does the encoding etc happen?
From Wikipedia: "Since June 2007, YouTube's videos have been available for viewing on a range of Apple products. This required YouTube's content to be transcoded into Apple's preferred video standard, H.264, a process that took several months"
The iPhone YouTube app doesn't play FLV, it plays H.264 versions of YouTube's videos. Apple arranged this with YouTube privately. You will need to convert your videos to a format that the iPhone can play.