we have installed the player on our web page using an html5 element design, however, the player fails to load the controls which allows the video to be played.
We do not have this problem on any Android device this is only effecting the iOS devices.
Here is a link to see the player we have implemented:
https://liveconferencepro.com/vp/viewHTML5.php?id=tah1pa
Can someone please tell us where we can obtain the correct code so the player will work for iOS devices?
Tom
The player was broken for me in Chrome for multiple reasons. The first was that the link took me to the page served over SSL, but the Videojs includes were via http, which meant they were never loaded due to being insecure content.
Once I fixed that, I noticed this error in the console: Uncaught InvalidCharacterError: Failed to execute 'setAttribute' on 'Element': '<source' is not a valid attribute name.
This seems to be because you didn't close the opening video tag:
<video id="videoPlayer" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls autoplay preload="auto" width="412" height="232" poster="https://liveconferencepro.com/vp/logo.jpg"
data-setup=""
<source src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/v/oceans.mp4" type='video/mp4'>
<source src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/v/oceans.webm" type='video/webm'>
...
</video>
Finally, keep in mind that if you want to use custom controls on mobile, you'll need to enable custom controls. Due to idiosyncrasies in mobile devices, for now we've disabled custom controls by default, but you can set the option to nativeControlForTouch: false to disable this.
Hope that helps!
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I have a video which plays sound but does not display the video on macOS Safari. I have tried the following solutions but didn't work:
I have tried playing around with combinations of attributes: autoplay muted playsinline loop;
I have tried converting and changing the extension to .mov;
I have tried switching between setting src in <video> tag and moving it inside with <source> tag;
I have tried settings src both absolute path and relative path; the website is https
The video plays:
in the original website,
in any other desktop browser;
if I open it in a separate tab;
in IOS Safari;
In the Safari dev tools console it says: "An error appeared attempting to open the resource".
This is the current html code used to show the video:
<video controls muted playsinline loop preload="metadata">
<source src="https://sistemecreative.ro/demo-istoma/assets/Triaj2.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<p>Your browser does not support HTML5 video.</p>
<video>
The video in question can be found at:
https://sistemecreative.ro/demo-istoma/
The current live website: https://istoma.ro/
In the live website it's the first video.
Recently I have noticed that the video elements on my site no longer autoplay on iOS Safari or desktop Safari.
The current code looks something like this:
<video playsinline autoplay muted loop poster="/path/to/poster.jpg>">
<source src="/path/to/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
From my understanding, this is enough to abide by Webkit's new video policies for iOS and MacOS to allow for a video to autoplay.
I have searched for similar questions and not come across a solution. In this question it seems like the source tag itself could be the problem.
This thread suggests that iOS blocks videos from autoplaying on low power mode as well. But I've determined this isn't causing my issue.
Has anyone come across this issue themselves? Do you have a solution? Can someone point me in the direction of some Safari change logs where this breaking change was introduced?
Details
iOS 11.4
MacOS Safari Version 11.1 (13605.1.33.1.2)
EDIT
The video isn't being loaded correctly, when I check the Network panel in Safari dev tools the MP4 shows up under 'Other' with the error "An error occurred trying to load the resource".
If I try to play the video directly in Safari (eg: go to https://my-website.com/path/to/video.mp4) I get the error Failed to load resource: Plug-in handled load
I think it's because my video is a file blob, and Safari expects videos to be from streaming servers (as mentioned in this question)
EDIT 2
Might be something to do with how Safari is introducing the ability to use videos in img tags? See this and this
I am building a little application to display a video for users and I am having a lot of issues with mobile devices. It seems to work perfectly on desktop, and hit and miss on mobile. It works on one iPhone, but not another and it definitely does not work on my android even when i navigate directly to the files.
Here is my code.
<video id="video1" width="600" controls="">
<source src="~/Content/Video/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="/Content/Video/mov_bbb.ogg" type="video/ogg">
Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video>
its ripped right from the example from w3schools http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp files and everything. When I visit that site on the mobile device, it works, when hosted on my site it doesn't.
here is a screen shot of the android device, the player shows up but nothing i can do will play the video
I am running windows server 2012, and the android device is Android 4.4.4; SM-N900V Build/KTU84P, Chrome 41.0.2272.96.
because these files and code are ripped directly from another source that seems to work the only thing I can think of is that something on the server is not set up correctly.
thanks!
The tag is only supported by modern browsers. The problem you are facing is with browsers running on the client mobile or desktop and not your servers.
See browser support to understand which versions are supported: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
I've been working on an HTML5 video implementation, but I'm having some issues. I've been following the guide at http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html. I have encoded .m4v, .ogv, and .webm versions of all of the video. Chrome and Firefox have no troubles playing the video. When I attempt to play it in Safari, it loads the video container, but not the video. You see a white space where the video should be, the controls, and the "loading" text. In Web Inspector's network tab, the video's status is "pending" and the mime-type is "undefined". Interestingly, I only experience this problem on the staging site, while it works fine on my local dev.
When I visit the video directly in the browser on local dev, I get the following output in the console:
Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type video/x-m4v.
GET http://site.dev/content/videos/movie.m4v Plug-in handled load
Note that GET has a little red x to the left of it in the inspector.
My html code looks like:
<video class="html5-video" width="700" controls>
<source src="content/videos/movie.m4v" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
<source src="content/videos/movie.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' />
<source src="content/videos/movie.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
Your browser does not support this video.
</video>
Additionally, the video is ~20mb.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Well...it turns out that the issue occurred because I was using .htaccess to password protect the directory. Interestingly, all browsers except for Safari would allow access to the video files. Thanks to those who helped!
Try encoding to mp4 and replace this file instead m4v format, update your code and run.
Work's fine.
I have a simple html 5 video on a page that works in Chrome and Firefox but not in Safari.
<div class='show_page_video'>
<video controls='' height='320' id='movie' poster='http://cloud-coach-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/58e68874774da1c4d18b37dc9dee3c9c_1.jpg' preload='none' width='400'>
<source src='http://cloud-coach-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/58e68874774da1c4d18b37dc9dee3c9c.ogv' type='video/ogg'></source>
</video>
</div>
The video poster loads but the video isn't grabbed and when I click play nothing happens, also in the network tab I don't see any attempt at grabbing the video data.
Anyone run into this issue before?
It appears I was flawed in my thinking Safari supports OGG so I just had to rework some things to have multiple encodings for videos and added an mp4 fallback source