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November 26, 2012
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FMS 4.5 not playing on Andrid smartphones?

  • November 26, 2012
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I'm streaming with HDS and all is well on iOS devices, Macs and PCs. My issue is with Android devices using mobile safari. My log file (below) seems to indicate that all is working.  On the droid my player just says "streaming".  I'm using manifest files with 300kbps, 600kbps, and 900kpbs.  When I drop the manifest file and hook-in a f4m movie file directly the player will play the video.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  Any direction would be great.

I'm using the custom OSMF implementation with custom sub-title support.  On the mac side I'm using an HTML player with subtitle support. 

My issue is consistant if I use the newest OSMF download (e.g. without any custom features).

Here is a snipit of my log file.  As you can see, it appears as if the server is delivering video fragments to the device.  They just don't play.  This is true on many Android devices.

Line 1029532: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:37 -0500] "GET /crossdomain.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 1010 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029533: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:37 -0500] "GET /vod/L_AE_L1U1L2VA.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 324 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029534: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:37 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 28595 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029535: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:37 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_600kbps.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 28595 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029536: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:37 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_900kbps.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 28595 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029540: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:44 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag1 HTTP/1.1" 200 346650 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029541: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:46 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag2 HTTP/1.1" 200 230771 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029543: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:47 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag3 HTTP/1.1" 200 172057 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029544: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:48 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_600kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag4 HTTP/1.1" 200 360771 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029545: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:49 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag5 HTTP/1.1" 200 197923 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029546: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:50 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag6 HTTP/1.1" 200 238976 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029547: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:51 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag7 HTTP/1.1" 200 254723 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029549: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:53 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag8 HTTP/1.1" 200 238387 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029551: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:55 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag9 HTTP/1.1" 200 229907 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029552: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:56 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag10 HTTP/1.1" 200 233552 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

    Line 1029553: 72.45.176.203 - - [26/Nov/2012:16:28:57 -0500] "GET /hds/L_AE/L_AE_L1U1L2VA_640x360_300kbps.f4vSeg1-Frag11 HTTP/1.1" 200 231011 "http://dev.xyzxyz.com/SWF/Versions/CCStrobeMediaPlayback_Version_4.swf" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; ADR6300 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

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November 28, 2012

I would like to know the answer to this as well, I was under the impression that updating to AMS 5 will fix this what version are you running and what OS?

thanks