Progress bar for playing native.newVideo?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Is there any way to get the current position of where the native.newVideo is while playing? What I am doing is actually using this to play a remote video. I have added a couple buttons for play and pause but would love to show the current position of where it is while playing. I plan to use the seek method to jump around in the audio also. All of the mp3 files will not be over 45 seconds.

Thanks,

Warren

#2

Playing the mp3 worked on Android but for iOS it did not do anything. I’ll have to see whats going on with. Do I need the audio file to be a wav format instead?

#3

Is the ringer on your phone on? Corona respects the ringer. If it is on silent the audio will have no volume

#4

Check out https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/media/playVideo.html

edit: audio https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/audio/seek.html

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/audio/getDuration.html

#5

This works for Android but not for iOS so far. I have been trying on my iPad Pro but does nothing when I try to  load the url and play.

#6

I was using native.newVideo. This is the one that supports the getDuration, play, pause which I need.

#7

Is https?

#8

Do you have it setup under ats

#9

What is ats? I have a wav and mp3 file sitting on one of my domain sites. Works for Android. Nothing happens with iOS.

#10

https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/hardware/appleATS/index.html
App transport security(ats)

The short version is apps that use the internet in anyway (expect gamecenter or iCloud) have to be secured with a ssl certificate on your site. https://example.com is most likely is secure site but http://example.com

You have to add all domain to your build.settings, you can turn off ats but all app and updates submitted in 2017 must ats on.

Edit: just to clarify this is an Apple App Store requirement

#11

If you are looking for a free way to do this, I used to use cloudflare which worked with ats. But I personally use comodo but that is only because students get a free ssl certificate but they do have pretty cheap ssl certificates.

#12

I put this in the build settings file under plist. I did this a couple days ago for another iOS app and worked for what I needed. Would this work for trying to stream a file? It did not work for a wav and mp3. Should it be in another file format for iOS?

 NSAppTransportSecurity = { NSExceptionDomains = { ["mydomainwashere.com"] = { NSIncludesSubdomains = true, NSThirdPartyExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads = true }, }, },
#13

Let me clear up the problem .mp3 and wav work fine on iOS. If you look at the logs you should see your error. I am load from a remote source as we speak with .MP3 on iPad in my corona game. Try:
NSAppTransportSecurity =
{
NSAllowsArbitraryLoads = true,
},
This is a temporary fix, you should consider a ssl certificate of some kind that supports https

#14

Thank you!!! It works. I have it playing an MP3 file as soon as I load the scene which is what I wanted to do. This is a hacked way of playing audio files instead of videos but as long as it works! I was going to use an HTML5 mp3 player in a webView control but neither Android or iOS allows autostart so I found this way. I have an awesome app I’m creating with this and will share it when released.

Thanks again!

#15

Just remember 2017 is when you have to have ssl certificate (that meets apples requirements which is most ssl certificate). The code for the build.settings is posted above , turns ats off. 2017 is the cut off point when you have to ats on and you have to proper ssl certificate( https)

#16

Playing the mp3 worked on Android but for iOS it did not do anything. I’ll have to see whats going on with. Do I need the audio file to be a wav format instead?

#17

Is the ringer on your phone on? Corona respects the ringer. If it is on silent the audio will have no volume

#18

Check out https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/media/playVideo.html

edit: audio https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/audio/seek.html

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/audio/getDuration.html

#19

This works for Android but not for iOS so far. I have been trying on my iPad Pro but does nothing when I try to  load the url and play.

#20

I was using native.newVideo. This is the one that supports the getDuration, play, pause which I need.