HTML5 video for iPhone / iPad. How to detect connection speed?

Question

I need to stream a video in Safari for iPhone/iPad with the best possible quality.

I created 2 video files: one in low-quality for slow 3G speed, one in hi-quality f

Answer 1

You will have to load some sort of document to test your connection speed.

an example -- http://alexle.net/archives/257

Answer 2

• I am assuming this will be in your own application:

You could use Apple's Reachability to determine the connection type in your application before sending the UIWebView's request. You can modify the request's URL by adding a query:

//determine the connection type via Reachability

myURLString = [myURLString stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"?conntype=%@", *connTypeString]];

//then send the request for the page.

Then, parse the URL query in PHP to determine the video URL that should be used.

• If not, you would need to test the connection speed via a third-party Javascript or PHP script.

Example: http://jan.moesen.nu/code/php/speedtest/index.php?numKB=512