Hi guys, I was wondering if there's a way to "embed" a Vimeo video in an iPhone app.
For YouTube videos I'm using a webview containing the correct embed code for the YouTube video and the iPhone's native YouTube support will then transform the flash player into a YouTube button.
Is there a similar way to play Vimeo videos from my app?
Maybe someone knows the correct <video>-src for Vimeo videos?
thanks, Thomas
I'm not sure if this is possible - Vimeo uses flash.
However according to this
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10394769-248.html
Some videos in the Vimeo collection have been converted to be playable on mobile devices that don't support flash
According to Vimeo forum at the moment the only way is to link to a mobile URL like
vimeo.com/m/#/id
they say they will add API to search mobile video content more info on http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:20132
It appears that vimeo is transcoding all videos being uploaded these days into versions compatible for the iphone which are used on their site when you browse from an iphone or ipad. You can however call their videos into an HTML5 player on your site by doing some simple tricks found here. If you can host a page on your site somewhere, you can load the video into a UIWebView and it should all work. Vimeo's only limitation is that there embed code is flash but the video infrastructure is all there for HTML5. Hope this helps!