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Kiwix for offline access on iOS and macOS

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Cannot play video #25

Closed automactic closed 4 years ago

automactic commented 7 years ago

In iOS app video cannot be played. Tested using French TedxLausanneChange2013 Mar18, 2015, 81.8MB.

Here is the video player in the HTML `

` It does't have the source element. (The HTML video example from W3School has.) @kelson42, could this be mwoffliner's fault?

automactic commented 7 years ago

After some further investigation, I found that in the raw html, there indeed is a source tag. `

However, this a webm video, which is not supported by UIWebView(source). Because of that, the loaded webpage doesn't have a source tag in video.

One way to solve the issue is that we use mp4 video (type="video/mp4").

automactic commented 7 years ago

This issue is not caused by the app itself. It's just iOS doesn't support webm.

kelson42 commented 6 years ago

I re-open the issue as we have the issue and need a strategy.

So far I see the following alternatives:

Use an external library to render the video properly in the HTML renderer (best solution)
Replace in all our ZIM files, the usage of webm with mp4 (so far I can see this is impossible due to the license costs... but not 100% sure)
Remove all ZIM with videos from the catalog for iOS
If user want to play such a video, invite him to install a webm video player and make the whole stuff works well between kiwix and this third party app

kelson42 commented 6 years ago

A few links:

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be now be reviewed manually. Thank you for your contributions.

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

The fundamental problem has been solved. If video don't play now, this is a problem with the ZIM themselves. @rgaudin Would you agree to close that ticket?

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

No, it has only been solved for iOS. Do you want to open a separate bug for macOS?

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

@rgaudin yes please if this is still not done. iOS and macOS versions of Kiwix should not have tickets in common.

kelson42 commented 4 years ago