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Video component not working in mobile browsers

Christofer Dutz
7 years ago Jul 31, 2015 11:17am

Hi,

I am currently trying to resove an issue with mobile users but using a normal Desktop Vaadin application (no Touchkit).
While all Browsers seem to work niceley with the Video component, on mobile browsers all I can see is the first picture of my video and then it stops. What could be the reason for this? I tried some of the alternate Video components such as 
Mediaelementjs Player but with this I can see that it too doesn't seem to work on my mobile (Android and iOS).

Chris

Christofer Dutz
7 years ago Aug 12, 2015 2:47pm

Ok ... so after quite some research, I ended up with a binary comparison of a working and a not working response. It turned out that pages which seemed to work had a http header in common: Content-range ... a short google search confirmed that ios requires to be able to request random parts of the video in order to work. So I switched from FileSource to ExternalSource and deliver the video using a "random access servlet" an all is working fine. Eventually it would be good to support random access in the connectors.

Chris