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Does anyone have any experience embedding .m4v movie files into webpages for playback on the iPhone? I'm trying to create a site optimized for the iPhone, and it includes a video, but I just can't get the video to play - all I get is the grey play arrow with a line through it.
The markup I'm trying to use for embedding it is this:
<embed width="199" height="159" type="video/x-m4v" href="http://www.samplesite.com/motion/mymovie.m4v" src="http://www.samplesite.com/motion/mymovie.jpg"/>
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Picture in Picture for iPhone To do Picture in Picture, first go to a video app like the Apple TV or the Twitch app, a livestreaming platform. Play a video. Swipe up to go home, or press the home button on non-Face ID iPhones. The video will start playing in a separate floating window, on top of your home screen.
Messages Full Screen Videos When you want to play the video, tap slightly off-center on the video thumbnail. The play icon is the center. Tap anywhere but the play icon. If you tap the play icon, it will play the video inline.
<embed> is old school
use HTML5's <video>
iPhone supports it
<video width="199" height="159" src="http://www.example.com/mymovie.m4v" />
You got the gray play arrow with a line through it, it probably means that the MPMoviePlayerController class can't play the movie.
This class only supports H.264 Baseline Profile Level 3.0 video (up to 640 x 480 at 30 fps) and MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Simple Profile), and there's a possibility that your movie file doesn't match this requirement.
HTH
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