Playing .mov File on the Safari Browser

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Playing .mov File on the Safari Browser

I just tried to open a .mov url on the safari browser on my iPhone but it didn't work, it comes back with a "crossed Play" logo. Can we watch .mov streaming videos on Safari? Does it require any sftw update? Or that's just not possible?
Thanks Guys.

iPhone, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 6, 2007 7:28 AM

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Answer 1

Jose M

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Aug 6, 2007 7:45 AM in response to vbeachcomber

Vbeachcomber,

iPhones do play .mov files that you might have in itunes, but over the web it usually boils down to the resolution that the video is in, also another issue could be the .MOV container format can store a variety of codecs. This is true for other containers like AVI or MP4, which is why one .AVI file will work in QuickTime, but another will prompt for a plug-in that it cannot find. Even if iTunes can recognize the container file, does not mean it can play the codecs stored in that file.

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vbeachcomber Author

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Aug 6, 2007 7:58 AM in response to Jose M

So is there a workaround? How do we stream videos to iPhone? Thanks a lot for your feedback.

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Jose M

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Aug 6, 2007 8:23 AM in response to vbeachcomber

The iPhone is not designed to stream videos over the web at this time. myself have not been able to view all videos from the web on the iPhone. Try going to www.apple.com/trailers on your phone and click on any movie trailer. Select large trailer and that should play for you. There you have videos with the correct codec. Now there are view few sights out side of Apple that I have found videos that do from the web page.

The only work around that might work is downloading the video clip to the computer and then converting it with quicktime or itunes to be use on the iPhone.

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