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Using an audio element instead of a video element

We're loading HLS audio with JWPlayer, and on iOS it uses the native <video> element. The problem is that iOS opens a full-screen QT player when the video tag plays, which hides all of our controls etc. Minimising this full-screen player also pauses the playback. I've tested with native HTML 5 <audio>, and the player does not launch QT full-screen.

Is there a way of specifying that JWPlayer uses an <audio> instead of <video> element when playing native HTML?

Thanks
Jason

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Daniel Berger

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hi Jason,

Thank you for the question. My name is Daniel and I am an iOS Support Engineer. I will look into this issue and report back to you shortly.

Best,
Daniel

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Daniel Berger

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hi Jason,

Thank you again for the question. I checked with our engineers and there is currently no way to switch between an audio and video tag for iOS. We are considering implementing this feature in the future.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Be well,
Daniel

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admin

User  
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Hi Daniel

We really would love that feature.

Thanks
Jason

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