johndyer/mediaelement — Issue #286: iPod with ios 4.2.1 only shows poster
Author: flyncooley
Created: 2011-11-02 05:59:36+00:00
State: open

I’m testing the mediaelementsjs media player on various platforms.

http://eltoncho.com/demo/test.html

I used .m4v because I wasn’t sure if I could convert to mp4 at first. Seems to work great on mac with Google Chrome & Firefox 5.01. In Safari 5.0.4 “2. Multi-Codec with no JavaScript fallback player” partially loads and sounds like its looping at the very first few frames. No luck on iPod with with iOs 4.2. I’m hosting on dreamhost.com with a Debian Linux shared server ( http://dreamhost.com/web-hosting/ ) I just used the mediaelementplayer.html demo and replaced the file directories to my files, small_vid.m4v… Thanks for any advice on implementing the mediaelementsjs media player in Safari and on ipod/iphone/ipad using with iOs 4.2 or better.

So I changed the m4v files to mp4 files, and the video plays in chrome and firefox well and now in Safari 5 too. When I try to view the test http://eltoncho.com/demo/test.html on iPod with iOs 4.2, I can see videos with the play symbol on them, but I cannot click to play them now that I hanged the files to mp4. when the files were m4v I could click the image of the video and the ipod quicktime player would come up and say “cannot play video” in a iPod dialog box.

I later added this to test.html -