Playing online video on iphone web, the iphone seems to cache the reference movie
- by Mad Oxyn
We are working on an online mobile video app, and are trying to play a reference movie on an iphone from the iphone browser. The problem is, the movie plays the first time, but when we try to play a different movie the second time, it doesnt. Quicktime gives a general error message sayin "Cannot Play Movie". More precisely this is what we are trying to do:
Connect with an iPhone to a webserver that serves a reference movie (generated with quicktime pro). The ref movie automatically gets downloaded to the iphone by quicktime. Quicktime then chooses one of the 3 references in the reference movie, based on the connection speed, and tries to download the designated movie via a relative path. A servlet gets called and forwards the relative path to the right movie. This all works the first time. However the second time when we want download different movies, we get the quicktime error.
Test case:
Open reference movie 1
Movie plays in Quicktime
Open reference movie 2
ERROR: Quicktime gives an error -
Cannot Play Movie
Shut down Iphone
Turn Iphone on again
Open reference movie 2
Iphone plays movie
Open movie
ERROR: Quicktime gives an error -
Cannot Play Movie
Did anyone encounter similar issues with quicktime and the use of reference movies and is there something we can do to work around that?