The video automatically plays when it's a computer, but when the website is opened from any tablet, it doesn't play.
It cannot be done. Apple doesn't allow that.
In Safari on iOS (for all devices, including iPad), where the user may
be on a cellular network and be charged per data unit, preload and
autoplay are disabled.
Safari HTML5 Audio and Video Guide
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Hey everyone,
we have a serious issue with a website where we have an html5 video on the landingpage. It's a muted autoplay 5second loop that is supposed to play as a background-video on the site.
Now … we have two persons testing it, with the exact same device.
iPhoneX with Google Chrome (caches cleared and tested on both devices with Incognito and without)
On my phone the autplay works just fine. Video plays in the background.
On my collegues iPhoneX (same build, bought at the same date, same iOS version, same Browser (caches cleared)) it does not play automatically. He get's the play-icon.
Any idea why?
Thanks,
Matt
For everyone looking into that. The reason is iOS Low-Power-Mode. in low power mode the videos do not automatically play.
I am working on an iOS app with video streaming. My requirement is that I want to stream video content on Apple TV using Airplay, also streaming should continue even if my phone gets locked / app enters background state.
Thanks in advance.
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Is this possible in iOS 7?
Yes, it is possible:
If you use AirPlay to allow users to redirect content to an external
device display, you can either mirror the current app content on the
second display or show different content on it.
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Example: The first video on this page uses captions that aren’t viewable on an iOS device.
Is it possible to do any of the following:
Disable quicktime programatically?
Control quicktime programatically from the browser?
Place captions over quicktime using data from the browser?
Any other solutions to this problem are welcome.
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