I have MP3s and other file formats that I want to provide through my website to iPhone and iPad users. VLC's iOS app seems to fit the bill, but they say
Additionally, third party websites and apps
may include links to open streams directly in VLC for iOS.
Here is the official documentation provided
How can I do that? I can't seem to find any documentation about it. I'm considering making a custom app just to accomplish it, but that seems silly.
Starting from VLC 2.0.2 you can use a link of type:
vlc://path/to/file to have the device open VLC if it is installed.
Also check the VideoLAN forums here
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I am trying to make a simple node-webkit app that lets you play .avi videos (which should work both on windows and mac). Is there a way to do this with node-webkit?
It is unlikely you will be able to just do this with Node-Webkit. Especially since the official webkit does not support AVI. Your best bet is to use an external application like libav (avplay) or use node to serve a webpage that has a player capable of playing the content and just let the users browser do the work. (Flash is likely still the best way to go, video.js is a good choice)
The alternative is to convert the video to one of the supported formats. I would recommend mp4. (Once again libav (avconv) comes in handy here.) This still assumes that Node-Webkit has implemented full HTML5 support. (I am not sure what they have completed but I am guessing it supports the video element)
Is AVI supported in Chrome (not Chromium) ?
If it is you have to change the libffmpegsumo.so in nw for the one in Chrome (try to use the same version).
libffmpegsumo.so is called ffmpegsumo.dll in Windows
The file file is in the same folder of the nw executable
to get the file download google chrome and go to %USER%/Google Chrome/ (or something like that) and you'll find the file in the same folder of the google-chrome executable
You can wcjs-player to play any format video which supported by VLC. It plays any video without any lags as in-built player.
To support my above claim, I have following points:
Building NW (by compiling source code) with various FFMPEG codec flags given at nw github site, doesn't help, in getting ffmpegsumo.dll which can play avi file format.
wcjs-player uses VLC libraries, which support all video played by VLC does.
Its better than using any nw plugin, as internally wcjs-player using VLC does similar job as HTML native video support .
Even if you suceed playing avi files, sometimes supported videos file format may not get played like most ironically mp4 file itself.
Apart from this, Teewe Theatre, Popcorn Time , Butter are among NW based media player using wcjs-player. It hardly increased 30 MB size of overall app size.
I am planning to build a JavaScript/HTML5 app, and wrap it with phonegap to be installed on an android tablet.
In it, I want to show a video file.
Is it just a matter of creating an index.html file, and putting a mymov.ogv file in the same directory, and then using:
<video src="mymov.ogv"...>
and it will work on Android?
I have read about some problems with this, but my quest got me confused.
What are the caveats, if any?
PS: the video should be packaged within phonegap, such that the video is shown when the app is not connected to wifi. So it's a local file.
PPS: Since it's for internal use, I am able to choose a particular modern android version (if that makes any difference). There is no need to support old android versions whatsoever.
According to this resource: http://caniuse.com/ogv There is not support for ogv format in Android. Remember that Phonegap applications are just display in a rapped browser window-- So if the browser doesn't support it, you can't use it. Whether the video is on-board the device or streamed, doesn't matter.
You can certainly embed with the tag, but you might want to use the associated Javascript API to provide some control over the video.
Seen many posts on this around the web but no nearer finding out if it's possible to do...
Have seen http://www.webqr.com/ recommended but I tried uploading the .zip from github (https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode) for this to phonegap and the compiled app fails on android with "Sorry, native web camera streaming (getusermedia) is not supported by this browser"
Well, I'm not trying to use the webcam really, I want to access the camera on the phone/ipad if possible.
Is it actually possible to do this from HTML5 or does it require a proper native app? (so xcode for the ipad app I have in mind)
I've also seen some plugins for "phonegap" (as opposed to phonegap build) which would also require a mac/xcode so that's not the angle I want to approach it from as I'm trying to do this all from windows if possible.
This may help. it a js plugin. search the phonegap plugin page for 'scanners'
https://build.phonegap.com/plugins/2421
https://github.com/wildabeast/BarcodeScanner/tree/c74e37a
I have a jQuery Mobile website I created for a friend/client of mine. It only has 6 pages or so (2 of them are dialog windows). The site has HTML5 video with fallback for flash support via the videojs library. All videos are encoded properly in mp4, ogv (theora), and webm and so far play on every device I have used.
My problem lies bandwidth, the purpose of the program really needs to be an application because these are informational videos that may need to be viewed at any time, even with no web access (web access is required for first login to verify credentials).
I was left with 3 solutions, try writing native apps for all the platforms myself in their native languages, use Sencha Touch (which I am comfortable enough with extJS to do), or taking my existing jquery mobile app that is 100% functional including log-in and some backend package management to assign users a package of videos (there are multiple packages each with between 8-20 videos), and follow the jQuery Mobile tutorial for getting your app ready for PhoneGap, I believe its only enabling two settings, and both are to enable "cross-domain" requests, since my current web app would be running as localhost, it would see the scripts as external pages.
My main question/problem is for one, I have never used PhoneGap; aside from their Hello World android tutorial, and I know there are other all-in-one frameworks out there now: PhoneGap, Titanium, Corona, Adobe Flex (which I am installing while writing this tutorial, to see what it has to offer. If it has features like encoding videos automatically for the target device (video resolution changing), or even has local video playback features at all that may work.
Does anyone know which of the current frameworks have the ability to install a set of videos to the sdcard, (totaling around 6mb per install), and play them natively (by that i mean, in the devices native player, not inline inside of a webview). Which on android phones anyways, my current videojs based player plays the files natively in everything I have tried it on.
I just need a push in the right direction, if there is a PhoneGap plugin that I don't know about that allows videos to be played from the sd card, that would be terrific. Although I am not very happy with the speed of the android and blackberry webview controls. So something that uses 100% native controls would be great. I hope you guys can come up with some ideas, you can see the current app in action at m.yourvideobenefits.com email:abc#tool.com password: demo
You should view it from your phone if you want to see it properly, but if you do not have a smart phone; keep in mind that when viewing this page certain desktop browsers, the videos become their actual size after they are through loading. This is because i have autoload="true" in the video tag (which is ignored on most phones, but believe it or not, setting autoload="true" is what actually allowed the videos to not play inline on certain devices. A bug on the device, I am sure...but without this tag the videos played inline on iPhone 4 with the latest iOS version.
You could do it very easily with phonegap; you already have your web page, so it would be much less work, probably.
You could get the videos from inside your apps bundle in ios, and then it wouldn't be hard to select the one with the best resolution for the device being used. You could also download the videos at the perfect format and resolution the first time your app plays from your server using the file api. That convined with the storage api is nice for actualizations.
There's a plugin I use for android, because video tag is sometimes bugged or doesn't work at all in older versions, https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/VideoPlayer.
It only plays from web or sdcard, but that's rarely too bad.
I can't help you with black berry, but I'm pretty sure there must be a way of doing it. And, anyway, appcelerator doesn't support it yet, so you would probably had to do it natively. Even if there isn't a plugin for black berry, you'd probably have to chose between native developement and html5 player inside phonegap. I won't give you my opinion about it here, for I'm not the one to give it and Stack Overflow says I shouln'd give it anyway.
I want to embed an audio player into my web page with a playlist feature. How can I do this?
A simple, clean way of doing it via Jquery (one of many options out there): http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/
The (somewhat clunky) Microsoft way of doing it: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/windows-media/streaming/embed.html
Using an audio player that's not proprietary is good UI practice. For instance, Flash isn't available on all user's computers. WMV (which the windows example uses) is a very windows-centric format, and may not be supported to some linux or mac users. Many people don't run quick time, so the AAC format might not be a great format to embed.
You should probably use Windows Media Metafiles.