So I'm trying to play music on a webpage, but whenever it plays for the first time, you have to go through a short but annoying process of enabling quicktime for the website.
Is there either:
Another way to play music (a different music player) that can still be invisible and plays immediately?
A way to force enable quicktime when they get to the site?
So yeah, please help me out!
What I did was I just embedded an invisible youtube player. Works decently.
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I am using JWPlayer for a long time but have a problem with playlist not auto loading next tracks in iPhones. I have JWPlayer version 6 loaded with an rss playlist of MP3 files. If the user has the browser open the next track loads and starts playing. If the phone is locked it does not start playing the next track automatically for some reason.
Website: gurbanivichar.com
I would appreciate if someone can help.
Update
I have asked JWPlayer support for help but it seems like they are not able to replicate the issue for some reason. I on the other hand have this issue on iPhone 4s/5/6s/7 and iPad, other iPhones I have not tried.
JWPlayer support thread: https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/en/portal/questions/16729726-mp3-playlist-auto-play-next-tracks-in-iphone?new=16729726
If you can help be reproducing the issue, would be appreciated.
I investigated this issue thoroughly and found that this because of iPhone/iPad limitation that apple has put in. The limitation stops audio/video to autoplay without any interaction. The initial trigger has to come from the user.
So due to this, I have decided to allow users to download an m3u playlist to play on an audio player on the device such as Remote Media Manager, it allows an M3U from any URL to stream music from the web.
Thanks for your help.
I've been trying to replicate this effect apple has on their website. I have been able to do the stop & start effectively on scroll but the reverse playback is an issue.
I've searched and old solutions on the website point to a reverse video which i've done but given that apple has done it for both ipad air and mac pro, I am sure there is a new solution.
Do let me know if you have been able to figure it out. I checked the website, they only use one video.
Thank you so much.
Apple reference
Neat. So they have one big video file (named 'story.mp4') which contains all the transitions. Then have code that can ask the video to play from one point in the file to another point, rather than playing from start straight through to finish.
But you've figured out that much and you want to know how to play parts of the video in reverse? Perhaps this question and answer will help: Is it possible to play HTML5 video in reverse? According to that, it comes down to setting the media element's playbackRate to -1.
I have a page where the user can click a button to play word pronunciation,
you can take a loot at http://japaneseclass.jp/note/open/351
Right now, the page uses flash player, and it is really heavy to load about 100 flash sound button on a single page.
I have already tried other flash player such as 1bit player, and they are all the same (heavy)
What are some other alternatives?
I tried to use embed, and it is also heavy.
What I have in mind is to use img button and use javascript to play it, but I dont know how.
You could create one flash audio player that sits somewhere on the page unseen, and make your buttons call it using ExternalInterface, passing a reference to the mp3 you want to play. That way the actual media player is very small, and it loads in the audio tracks on demand.
Is there a way to access/listen to the previous/next buttons in the iOS HTML5 video player? Ideally I would listen to some sort of a prev and next event and swap out the videos accordingly without the user having to close the video and click my prev/next buttons.
(source: iphonefaq.org)
I am currently using jwplayer to generate the html5 video and listening to their playlist next/prev listeners don't seem to do the trick. I can always find and attach listeners to the actual <video> tag pretty easily though.
If you attach listeners to the video tag itself then when the user hits next and previous then the listeners in the code will put up on those buttons. I am doing something similar with youTube videos. If you hit next it goes to the end of the youtube video and fires a video complete event tag and then I load the next video when that is called, so that the video will one loop without the next button and two the users can hit the buttons. I have not found a way to monitor the buttons in the player on the iphone side, but if I find it I will post that as well since it is important to know both angels if possible.
Funny thing I think I am looking to try and do the same exact thing. I know how to transition the videos to the next without having to leave the fullscreen mode because of using youTube api in the js but I am not able to observe the quicktime player itself and need to for another feature that I would like to work on.
That's the native iOS player which is a thin version of Quicktime. You'll know if it's an HTML5 player when it doesn't transition from the Quicktime player and your page in Safari. How is your movie being embedded?
I recently had a similar problem and was unable to find a solution using the HTML player. I ended up implementing the video player using MPVideoPlayer Framework and launching it from my web view with a custom URL scheme (AppName:Commnad:Asset). I was then able to use the delegate methods to monitor user interactions. If you would like to see basic implementation, let me know and I can add some code.
I'm setting up a website which ultimately displays videos. The video files are all .mpg and requirements prevent me from converting these to another format such as flv. So far I have been playing around with Windows Media Player but have found that it doesn't play nice with non IE browsers. The problem which arises is that although the video will play, it doesn't shrink itself to fit in the WMP container and so only the top corner is visible. This problem goes away if I download the np-mswmp plugin for Firefox however it is a manual install and I'd rather not leave it to the user. Once the Firefox plugin is installed, Chrome also plays the files correctly but I doubt that the average user would ever think to do this.
Is there a better way to embed .mpg files into a web page, an alternative player which doesn't require file conversion? I have had a play with Quicktime but it only ever shows a Q with a question mark imposed over it, even when I associate Quicktime with .mpeg files. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,
James
I'm sorry to say there isn't a good way to do cross-browser video without being able to force your users to install something. That is why every video site uses flash, since it's the nearest thing to a standard - but of course flash has some gaps in coverage, the most significant being iPhones.
Windows Media Player has only about 70% penetration and Internet Explorer somewhat less. By going this route you will end up with 1 in 3 users unable to view your videos.
Either bite the bullet and move to Flash as a video player or just give your users a download link. A download link is a very easy way to support almost every user, if you can do that.