[jira] [Assigned] (CB-6051) video / audio won't play from cdvfile:// urls

["Ian Clelland (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6051?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ian Clelland reassigned CB-6051:
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    Assignee: Ian Clelland

> video / audio won't play from cdvfile:// urls
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>
>                 Key: CB-6051
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6051
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin File, Plugin Media
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.0
>         Environment: iOS
>            Reporter: Claudius Coenen
>            Assignee: Ian Clelland
>
> We have an application that used to work in Cordova 2.9, we think we have traced down the error to cdvfile://. Here's what's happening:
> *The Application*
> We're loading a few videos and a HTML-File referencing those videos into the app, using {{FileTransfer}}. This transfer is fine now, and we _can_ access and display the HTML-File and other assets like images. The videos on this page however won't play. They display as "broken" (strike-through play symbol on iOS). We know the videos to run, it's not the video's encoding, we also triple-checked all the filenames as well. If we pre-package the video into the app, the same setup _does_ play just fine.
> *Behaviour Cordova 2.9*
> We're getting the just-downloaded html file from the filesystem and call {{toURL()}} on that entry. In 2.9 this will return a lengthy (but working) {{file:///}}-url. We're basically setting
> {{window.location = entry.toURL(); // returns file:///...}}
> *Behaviour Cordova 3.3*
> When calling {{toURL}}, we're now getting a {{cdvfile://}} URL, and (since the video file is referenced relatively) the video is also loaded from a {{cdvfile://}} URL.
> *Why i believe the cdvfile:// to be at fault*
> Basically "it used to work". We're suspecting that the file-protocol emulates a lot of the iOS-y stuff when it comes to video. Possibly the Content-Type-Header and the Range-Header that iOS uses extensively for streaming the video from a webserver.
> For an audio file, we're getting log-lines reading "_itemFailedToPlayToEnd: {kind = 1; new = 2; old = 0;}"
> I did not find any way to get a {{file:///}}-URL out of cordova 3.3, but i am pretty sure that this would cure my immediate problem.



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