iPhone UIWebView/Safari.app iOS 4 video/movie - Server issue?

Question

Hello,

I have a UIWebView which loads videos from an external server. The code seems to be fine since it works when I try to host my videos on another server. Are there any changes since iOS 3.0 which the server didn't need to have? (Where it loaded without problems).

The easiest way to test it is to load the url in the inbuilt Safari.app, on most servers I get "This movie could not be played", on my local webserver and an external virtual Server it works.

So I suppose there need to be some specific new server settings for iOS video playback?

Desperately looking for help

Answer 1

Look into file permissions. I've had issues developing local webpages that didn't have proper permissions for the browser to load them.

My guess is that the servers that work are Windows based, whereas the the ones that don't are Linux based. Linux is generally more strict about permissions.

Answer 2

User @cduhn suggested looking in to MIME return types of the server, and that seemed to be the answer. I contacted my host to add all apple specific MIME types (3gp, m4v and mp4) and now it's working. Strange it worked in 3.0 without them.