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#1

I’ve previously been building my application in Xcode, but I’m not very adept at writing objective C. I’ve been looking at Ansca (and others) hoping for an alternative. Copying and pasting code is not very rewarding LOL.

native.newWebView was the only piece missing from my move away from Xcode.

Unable to try native.newWebView without a subscription, I bit the bullet and sent my $200.
It works, but only kinda.

I have a http stream that is just a http multipart mpeg stream. native.newWebView will not display the stream at all unless it is wrapped in html. In contrast UIWebView will display the stream in my iOS app just fine. I can see data is being sent and received, but the web view remains grey.
If I wrap the stream in a simple html page it will work just fine.

This is my project (the existing iOS app is in Xcode, and the Mac app is RealStudio):
http://www.david-andrews.com/David_Andrews/Blog/Entries/2011/12/13_Teensy_board%2C_big_plans.html
(scroll to the bottom for videos and pic, I realize its a lot of blurb at the beginning)
This is the interface I’m hoping to duplicate using Corona. The top area is a UIWebView:
http://www.david-andrews.com/David_Andrews/Blog/Entries/2011/12/13_Teensy_board,_big_plans_files/photo%201_1.jpg
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#2

Question, have you looked at

media.playVideo?

http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/mediaplayvideo

or maybe even

http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/nativenewvideo
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#3

These (media.playVideo et al) will not work, one even creates a hard crash and quits the IDE.

The ‘movie’ is not really a movie in the traditional sense. It is simply a series of JPG images sent in succession using the http multipart protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG#M-JPEG_over_HTTP )

It works using native.newWebView if I create a html page that points to the stream and load the html page in to my WebView:
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but not if I try loading the stream directly.

In contrast, using Xcode and UIWebView, I can load the stream directly in to it and it displays just fine.
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