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HTTP Live Streaming to iPad/iPhone

Hi there,

Is Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (for streaming video) supported by Titanium? I've checked the docs, which are a little sparse, and in the forum but I haven't seen it mentioned apart from here http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/60801/app-store-approval-tips.

We're interested because it's a prerequisite for iPhone/iPad applicatations intended to play content longer than 10 minutes (or 5MB data), and also we'd like to make use of the encryption.

Thanks,

Toby

— asked September 20th 2010 by Toby Mathews
  • ipad
  • iphone
  • streaming
  • video
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  • To answer my own question, pointing setUrl (of the video player) at a sample movie set up to test HTTP live streaming (http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopgear2.html in this case) seems to work just fine, in the simulator at least.

    — answered September 21st 2010 by Toby Mathews
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  • I was about to ask the same question when I realized that Apple prefer you use the HTML5 view port to do HTTP Streaming and since that is just HTML in a web view I would think Titanium already supports it. You also get a better user experience over the native player .. (why I have no idea but you get a nice loading bar etc and user notifications)

    — answered January 27th 2011 by Craig Williams
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    • Uh, the native player actually works really well. Plus, it is easier to add event listeners to handle the playbackstate to fix any issues during the stream.

      — commented February 8th 2011 by John Welch

  • What api function did you use for this? The setURL that is?

    Thanks,

    — answered February 8th 2011 by Anthony james
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  • What api function did you use for this? The setURL that is?

    Thanks,

    — answered February 8th 2011 by Anthony james
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    • I'm not sure if this is deprecated, but this is what I use, and has been working for 5 months in the App Store:

      var contentURL = Ti.App.Properties.getString("videoURL");

      var activeMovie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer({
      contentURL: contentURL,
      backgroundColor:'#3c3c3c',
      scalingMode:Titanium.Media.VIDEO_SCALING_MODE_FILL
      });

      — commented February 8th 2011 by John Welch
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