Videos in Mobile App

I am having an issue playing videosin the mobile app

First - this is not in regards to the videos module

Second, I am using the free version of the mobile app

OK, not that that is out of the way, heres my dilemma

In the mobile app, a user can only view his own videos, or videos of another person by going through the other persons profile, but there is no viewing of Public Videos.

So,I created a simple php page that has the following:

 <video src="http://mytherapysession.net/flash/modules/video/files/1.webm" controls="controls" width="100%" height="240">sorrycant play the video</video>

Now, with the webm extension, I get nothing for the videos. if using the .m4v extension, sometimes it wont load and sometimes it will load after 10 minutes, but only the audio plays. If I use the .mp4 extension (I created an mp4 version for testing)  then it will start playing immediately, but again, it only plays the sound.

I also get this same problem with youtube videos. They start instantly, but only sound plays. Heres my code for the youtube videos:

<iframe width='100%' height='240' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/";
echo $Videos_youtube0;
echo "?rel=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>

The outcome I am looking for is a  simple one,I need the video to play as well as the audio.

I know this was brought up in regards to videos played through the video module, but as this is a simple non-dolphin piece of code, I started a new post.

if anyone knows video format I need to convert to, please let me know - or if there are any other suggestions, ideas that I may try, or anything I may have missed, PLEASE let me know.

For viewing in mobile site: Login to mytherapysession.net as demo1 pwd=54321

Click the Videos icon on the home page.

And as always, Thanks in advance

I would recommend to use some player for this purpose, and supply as many formats as possible to cover all mobile devices.  

and that is where i get confused again - technically, shouldnt the html5 itslef be a video player. I ask cause everywhere i look for html5 players, I get the same code - or slight variations of it - as what i already have.

since i only want these videos viewed through the mobile app - and not worried about pc users, can you recommend a player and options i should do to accomplish what I need. Below are other option i tried, which did not work either.

I expected this one to work as it has both formats that the videos are converted to

<video width='640' height='360' controls>
<source src='http://mytherapysession.net/flash/modules/video/files/1.m4v' type='video/mp4' />
<source src='http://mytherapysession.net/flash/modules/video/files/1.webm' type='video/webm' />
</video>

and

<div id="myElement">Loading the player...</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    jwplayer("myElement").setup({
        file: "http://mytherapysession.net/flash/modules/video/files/1.webm",
        image: "http://mytherapysession.net/video-images/Abuse.jpg"
    });
</script>

in my quest for knowledge and more dolphin dolphin DOLPHIN POWER, I have noticed that my videos will not play on my phone when viewing the desktop site, but they do work if viewing them on the mobile app if i go through the admin profile to view the videos of that profile.

I also noticed that when it plays the video on my samsung galaxy, it opens the video in a player all its own and fullscreens automatically. On my LG G2X, it asks which video player i want to watch the movie on. In addition to these 2 things, I also noticed that it is going to get_mobile to play the videos. On my galaxy, get_mobile is the title at the top of the video.

So, is there a way I can use that page as well for myt videos, or better yet - i like the way the default video albums and videos show up when i search for the admin profile and view those videos. I would love to just click one link and it take me straight to the videos for the admin profile, laid out like the default look.

First off, I would like to say thanks to all who have taken the time to look into my requests. Now, I have come up with a workaround that helps me out a lot.

Basically - i added my link for a new page in the sys_mobile_menu table as follows:

INSERT INTO sys_menu_mobile (

)
VALUES (

);

Then I created a page in my Mobile-Videos folder called view.php, in which it only has the following:

<?php header ("Location: bxvideoalbums:bcoyle")
?>

Since the only one who will be adding videos is me (admin) I just sent a redirect directly to the admins video albums.

This works for me, but if anyone knows or finds a way to embed the bxvideoalbums:bcoyle into the actual link as opposed to having to go to one page and it redirect to another - i think it would be easier to just click the videos icon and the url take you where you need to go, instead of using the redirect.


Thanks for this tip. It does work. However, I do sometimes get a error message "Connection Error" and the page does not load.

have you gotten that error?

Originally  Iwas getting that error - but only once in a while - I think it is because of the redirect - which I wanted to get away from anyways.

I am going to have to look at this post and what I did again. I have redirected my thoughts and efforts to redoing the desktop site and using 7.1.3. I know there has been an update for the mobile app since my original post and not sure how anything is going to work now. Plus, earlier it was a "nice thing to have" and not yet requested by the project manager.

It may take me a couple of days to check things out but I will get to this.

Hey ProfessorSr i just recently upgraded to the latest mobile app. I have the samsung 3 as well and it sent me a notification stating upgrade available. I did it today and i can't seem to upload any video or even view any video, so maybe its best to wait a bit i guess.