HTML5 video seeking on iPad

Question

I have an HTML5 video player with a custom seek bar, that\'s working great on the iPhone (playing inline) and on the browser.

It plays great on the iPad too and the seek

Answer 1

I've had all kinds of problems getting JavaScript to control audio elements, and a lot of frustration with the currentTime property, along with Apple's restrictions on what constitutes direct user initiation of events.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were some kind of weird bug with JavaScript & HTML5 video playback on the iPad (or "feature" that's undocumented), which requires a workaround. From my experience, the iPad has a unique way of doing things than what's in the official documentation.

You should check the error, buffered, seekable, and seeking properties of the video element. Looking at your readyState & networkState values, the iPad seems to think that the video has not been completely loaded - which is odd for a local resource.

buffered and seekable should be equal to the time range of your entire video. seeking should be TRUE. That should at least give you a little more information about the problem.

Have you tested it with other videos? It might be that there is some kind of encoding problem with the video that the iPad has a problem with.

Other than that - there was a bug in a previous iPad OS version that broke the ability to set the currentTime property. Are you using the latest OS version?