JWPlayer audio inline on iPhone/iPods
Hey All,
I was wondering if it is possible to let jwplayer play the audio stream using the inline (html5) player rather than the large pop-over QuickTime player on iPhones and iPods.
Cheers,
R.
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Alex
JW Player Support Agent
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Hi, there.
My name is Alex and I am one of the Support Engineers at JW Player. I will be more than happy to assist you with your questions.
On iPads, the audio can play inline in our player, but iOS does not allow any media to be played inline on iPhones or iPod Touch devices. This is a limitation of the operating system and there isn’t any workarounds available.
Please let me know if you need any more help or have any other questions.
Thank you!
jherrieven
User
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"but iOS does not allow any media to be played inline on iPhones or iPod Touch devices" - via a <video> tag...
iOS does allow inline play of media rendered via an <audio> tag on iDevices.
@R - I have a workaround which might be of interest to you. Email me for details.
James Herrieven
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Alex
JW Player Support Agent
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You are correct, I should have been clearer. iOS does not allow our player to play audio inline on iPhones and iPod touches because our player embeds it as a <video> element, which iOS forces into fullscreen.
sd N/A
User
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Thanks for your fast reply Alex.
Considering jherrieven and your comments is it possible to let JWPlayer use the audio tags instead of the video one?
jherrieven
User
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Not as jwplayer currently stands - although this functionality has been being asked for since they started using HTML5 elements.
Not sure what the resistance from the JW team is because on the surface it's a really simple fix. Check out:
http://dev.powered-by-haiku.co.uk/debug/jw7-audio-tag/
James
Alex
JW Player Support Agent
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Let me pass this up the chain and I’ll let you guys know when I hear something back.
Alex
JW Player Support Agent
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I have heard back from our Product Manager regarding this and he advised me that there is no real resistance to implementing this functionality, but it’s just a matter of more important changes having being made recently. Examples would include our recent support for VPAID 2.0 ad creatives or our upcoming ability to render HLS streams in HTML5 across all browsers.
They will keep this in mind for development in the future, but he also invited James to submit a pull request on our GitHub repository, since our player is open-source.
You can keep an eye on our JW 7 Release Notes page as we post release notes and bug fixes with every new update.
Please let me know if you need any more help or have any other questions.
Thank you!
jherrieven
User
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Here's a little Friday treat I've just knocked together... Play videos *inline* on iPhone / iPod:
http://dev.powered-by-haiku.co.uk/solutions/jwiosinline/
James Herrieven
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