hi Pierre, thanks for your reply. I've changed my page so that I now have: <a href="http://video_url.com.mov";><img src="images/video.png"></a> when viewing the page and clicking that image in the iPhone, I get the same message. I'm almost certain the video is a valid iPod one, I got it from the apple support site, here: http://www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/302892/sample_iPod.m4v.zip The only difference being the name (I've changed it to sample_iPod.mov rather than .m4v).
with the .mov extension i get: "this movie could not be played" with the .m4v i get: "safari cannot download this file" not sure what's going wrong.... thanks again, paul. On Nov 4, 4:54 pm, Pierre Bussière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > You have indeed to use a link for the iPhone to detect and play the > video. It can be an image linked to your video file as am alternative > to the embedded video, which the iPhone cannot play from within the > page. > > You got a "can't be played" message, this usually means your file is > not compatible with the device, which complies to a narrow range of > mp4 spec. Does it play when you load it via iTunes ? > > Pierre > > On 4 nov. 08, at 16:03, olicat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > I've tried various different methods of playing h264 quicktime files > > via an xhtml page, but i can't get anything to work. > > > all the docs i've looked into have suggested creating a reference > > movie, however i'm developing on linux so that functionality isn't > > available. > > > using apple's QT_WriteObject gives me a crossed out play button > > here's the javascript code i'm using:http://pastebin.ca/1244909 > > > i've also tried going to the video's url directly, the iphone media > > player starts (which looks promising), but then returns an error "this > > movie could not be played" > > > any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
