HTML5 video tag in iPad 1

Wowza Streaming Engine
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I’m having a strange problem streaming HLS on original iPad, running latest iOS5.

Here is a simple video tag that I use:

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It works as expected in a webpage on iPhone4S. First showing the Play icon on top and when that clicked, plays full screen. All good here.

When I try to input the URL directly into Safari URL on iPad:

http://192.168.1.19:1935/app_demo/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8, it ALSO works fine.

When I try to open the same exact webpage on iPad, it’s just showing the black rectangle, no Play icon on top, not responding to touch either.

I then decided to try Apple original samples here:

HLS Examples

And surprisingly my old iPad easily handles both Basic and Advanced HLS without a hitch.

I’m also positive that this used to work when I was running full evaluation version, but now I downloaded (the same Wowza version) and installed Developer Evaluation.

What could be wrong?

G

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I’m having a strange problem streaming HLS on original iPad, running latest iOS5.

Here is a simple video tag that I use:

[HTML]

[/HTML]

It works as expected in a webpage on iPhone4S. First showing the Play icon on top and when that clicked, plays full screen. All good here.

When I try to input the URL directly into Safari URL on iPad:

http://192.168.1.19:1935/app_demo/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8, it ALSO works fine.

When I try to open the same exact webpage on iPad, it’s just showing the black rectangle, no Play icon on top, not responding to touch either.

I then decided to try Apple original samples here:

HLS Examples

And surprisingly my old iPad easily handles both Basic and Advanced HLS without a hitch.

I’m also positive that this used to work when I was running full evaluation version, but now I downloaded (the same Wowza version) and installed Developer Evaluation.

What could be wrong?

G

Solved by adding “controls” to the video tag:

[HTML]

Your browser does not support the video tag.

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