I have a problem with my iPhone app. I will try my best to describe it.
I have an iPhone app that can display a web page.
This webpage has a link to a 3GP video.
Clicking on this link will open the video and play it.
This was working for a long time, but after a recent Apple Update, i got the message:
"Can't play this file"
Here is a Firefox screenshot from the file.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what could have changed?
Thanks!
edit: added Screenshot
See this SO answer: iPhone UIWebview video playback 4.0
The answer (and its comment) is about MIME type settings of the server. If the MIME types are not set correctly by the webserver, the playback might fail.
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Is there a way to specifically format a link on my page to tell a mobile device such as an Android phone or an iPhone that when a user clicks a link to a mp4 file (for example) to go ahead and play it (or ask the user if they want to play it) using their phone media player?
I'm working on a web app with mixed results, most of the times the device just goes straight into download mode, and attempts to save the file to the downloads folder, but what I would like is to make it so the device starts automatically playing the file as soon as possible.
My app is basically a file sharing app that creates qr codes and thus allows you to share media to mobile devices... the thing is, when it comes to video files and maybe images, I want the phone to automatically display the media and not just download it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can see the app here http://scan2see.me
You could always use a <video> tag to make your videos play instead of just linking to them.
FYI iOS devices never download anything, unless jailbroken and with Safari Download Manager plugin (or other one like it) installed. So even if you just link, it will always play. And the reason why all videos play at full screen is because the iOS instantiate Quicktime to play it.
I've seen the answers to how to correctly add an MP3 to a website so that it'll play by default in iPad or iPhone - this question is different.
For a visitor of a website -- how can you hear that mp3? Changing the code of the webpage is not an option. The site/mp3 in question is on the bottom of this page: http://187.45.233.63/novenas.php?id=pa30_01_2011 (the mp3, not the video).
iOS (iPad and iPhone) doesn't support Flash, but that page is using Flash to play the MP3 (and the video).
The only way an iOS user could get to it is to view the source and copy and paste the path (videos/novenas/paieterno_30_01_2011.mp3) to the MP3.
Can other Safari users please test http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html for me, to see if the audio reCaptcha plays properly? On my machine, I can only hear the audio if I click the Download sound as MP3 link. I also don't get the spoken introduction at all. It works OK in Firefox and Chrome.
I was alerted to this bug on my own development site, using the Zend Service for ReCaptcha. However, if it's broken on the official site, then I guess it's not a Zend bug. There don't seem to be any JavaScript errors.
Any ideas?
OK, forget that.
It was my Flash blocker in Safari which prevented the sound from playing. Didn't realise the audio reCaptcha used Flash.
I'd like website viewers to be able to play a video on an iphone, without posting the video to youtube, and without them having to install any iphone apps. Are there any other options here?
If you host a Quicktime movie, it'll play just fine without any additional software. There is a "designing web pages for the iPhone" document somewhere on Apple's web site that gives more detail on supported formats, I think.
just having a link to a quicktime-playable video file works I believe
When I load a HTML page with a .MOV embedded video on my App using a UIWebview it appears a broken icon, any idea? The same HTML page on Iphone Safari works fine and the media player is started without problem...
Where is the webpage? Is it embedded in your app? If you not giving the UIWebView a URL to load it from the server where it is make sure you set the baseURL properly so that the webview knows how to handle handle relative URLs.
When using the app sandbox, apple stops WebKit from accessing it's com.apple.security.WebKit.PluginAgent.
You must enable these in the entitlements file with the appropriate entitlement of
Add this line to the entitlements file as an ARRAY:
com.apple.security.temporary-exception.mach-lookup.global-name
in this array add the value : com.apple.security.WebKit.PluginAgent
and you should get your app to give sandbox permission so the app can access the quicktime movie plugins.
Hope this helps, if this doesn't solve the problem maybe the movies are missing... ;)