I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to restrict fast forwarding for videos playing in an iPhone. Does anyone have any advice?
Unfortunately you can't. iOS doesn't allow customisation of controls in full screen playback, and playback is always full screen on iPhone.
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I use video.js for vimeo. Played on the desktop in a custom player with my styles, it's good, but on the tablets and mobiles played in a default browse player. Why? I want custom player in mobile too. Can you help me?
In a recent version video.js was updated to use the custom skin on touch devices, so you might try updating your version. But this will still only make a difference on tablets that don't go to fullscreen video. On iOS devices and most(?) android devices, whenever the video goes to fullscreen it uses the native controls, and there's nothing we can do in the browser to change that. Hopefully in the future the devices will adopt the requestFullscreen browser API so we can use custom controls in that context.
My design calls for a video playing in the background of my login screen, exactly like 6snap has.
I would like to avoid the default behavior of stopping the user's music when the video starts to play. My video does not have sound.
I'm using:
<MediaElement Source="MyVideo.mp4" />
I tried setting IsMuted=true which didn't help. Does anyone have an idea how 6snap managed it?
Edit: currently trying the animated gif route. Using the ImageTools 3rd party library and having converted my MP4, it works fine. My 9 second 640x1136 3MB video became a 41MB GIF, so I have to reduce the quality drastically. Still trying to find a better way if possible.
You won't be able to do that with Background Audio and MediaElement, hence as MSDN says:
When a MediaElement control plays audio or video content, any background sounds or media already playing are halted. The app launches the playback experience when the user taps the control. Only one MediaElement control can operate at a time.
It's no matter you have no sound - when you start to play all background sounds/media are halted.
I'm not sure how the App you have mentioned achieved that, but maybe you can try with DirectX/XNA - thought I've not tried this and don't know if that would help.
I have an app that has some video editing tools. I mix photos and videos and I am running into an odd issue. When i arrange a video composition with a video, then a photo, then back to the video it plays fine until the transition back to the video at which point it freezes! I still hear the audio, and if i seek around the video starts playing again. I dont know how I can error check this! Anyone have any ideas?
The fix more my situation, I created a 1 second clip of blackness and injected that into my composition at the photo spot and now it works fine
I have an app and it has a static uimage as the background. To dress up the app, I have a video that would be great as the background but I cannot find any examples of how to play a video as a background view. I have looked at MPMoviePlayerController but I am not sure if it would do what I am expecting.
Anyone have any ideas, or an example of a video as a background to an app?
Thanks
I guess you could just use the MPMoviePlayerController, if you don't do it fullscreen (which is not possible on the iPhone, but it is so on the iPad).
Then you can just put buttons, labels whatever you want on top of that.
Should work fine :)
I've been struggling to make video on the iPad work. I'm using an MPMoviePlayerViewController and it plays fine in the simulator. I've tried several different converters, including ones dedicated to producing iPad-formatted video, but none of the videos play on the device. The MPMoviePlayerViewController loads and the controls appear.
For most of the videos, the spinning progress indicator never goes away. For a few, the video loads but when I press play the video immediately pauses. I know that the video is there because I can scan through and see various frames.
I know the code works because it plays a different movie file perfectly. I just have no idea what I'm doing wrong that's preventing my movie from playing. Does anyone know a good step-by-step process of getting an iPad-formatted video from any .mov or .mp4?
Thanks,
Luke
Also, just for future reference, import target video into iTunes, then highlight it and from the Advanced menu choose "Create iPod or iPhone Version" or "Create iPad or AppleTV Version" depending on your target device.
This guarantees that the right codecs are used and the right bitflags set on the video file.
Fixed - the one that loaded but couldn't play eventually worked. Why? Who knows.