Sound in iPhone Web Apps
Don Shin
My company created Lumina, a casual game for iPhone:
Performance is a bit sluggish on the iPhone, but the most
disappointing aspect is the use embedded sound in Safari: it seems
like all media files go into the full-screen custom media player
interface when clicked. This basically makes it impossible to play
back custom sounds when buttons/widgets are clicked.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to play sound within iPhone's
Safari *without* the full-screen interface? Or have seen a site that
behaves that way?
Thanks,
Don
Christopher Allen
So far I've not seen any web site on the iPhone that has embedded
media of any kind that displays in the iSafari browser window.
I am no expert at embedding media in web pages, but I do remember an
Apple employee pointing to the public web page
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html and saying to be
careful and make sure that you use the techniques they recommend in
there. At first glance, I don't see anything specifically that you are
doing wrong though.
My only thought is that I note that your page has the embed in the
following form:
<EMBED width="0" height="0"
src="sounds/set1/C.mp3"
TYPE="video/quicktime"
PLUGINSPAGE="www.apple.com/quicktime/download"
autostart="false"
controller="false"
name="C"
enablejavascript="true"></EMBED>
The TYPE you've chosen is "video/quicktime" which may mean that it
thinks it should use the quicktime player. Maybe try the "audio/mpeg"
type?
Let us know here if that works?
-- Christopher Allen
nroose
the iPhone?
On Jul 1, 3:52 pm, "Christopher Allen" <Christoph...@iPhoneWebDev.com>
wrote:
> On 7/1/07, Don Shin <don.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My company created Lumina, a casual game for iPhone:
>
> >http://www.luminagame.com
>
> > Performance is a bit sluggish on the iPhone, but the most
> > disappointing aspect is the use embedded sound in Safari: it seems
> > like all media files go into the full-screen custom media player
> > interface when clicked. This basically makes it impossible to play
> > back custom sounds when buttons/widgets are clicked.
>
> > Has anyone been able to figure out how to play sound within iPhone's
> > Safari *without* the full-screen interface? Or have seen a site that
> > behaves that way?
>
> So far I've not seen any web site on the iPhone that has embedded
> media of any kind that displays in the iSafari browser window.
>
> I am no expert at embedding media in web pages, but I do remember an
> Apple employee pointing to the public web pagehttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.htmland saying to be
Elliot
> src="sounds/set1/C.mp3"
> TYPE="video/quicktime"
> PLUGINSPAGE="www.apple.com/quicktime/download"
> autostart="false"
> controller="false"
> name="C"
> enablejavascript="true"></EMBED>
This just allows you to view things in the fullscreen viewer...
Interestingly javascript interaction with quicktime objects is
completely disabled/not implemented. No hope of going
"video_div.Play()" :-(.
--
Elliot
aimfire
> interface when clicked. This basically makes it impossible to play
> back custom sounds when buttons/widgets are clicked.
This is also driving me nuts as well... hopefully there will be a
solution soon...!
Don Shin
I tried replying earlier, but Google was acting funky at the time-
unfortunately, the mime type change did not make it work; but thanks
for the suggestion. I'll see you soon at the iPhone dev camp.
Thanks,
Don
On Jul 1, 6:52 pm, "Christopher Allen" <Christoph...@iPhoneWebDev.com>
wrote:
> On 7/1/07, Don Shin <don.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My company created Lumina, a casual game for iPhone:
>
> >http://www.luminagame.com
>
> > Performance is a bit sluggish on the iPhone, but the most
> > disappointing aspect is the use embedded sound in Safari: it seems
> > like all media files go into the full-screen custom media player
> > interface when clicked. This basically makes it impossible to play
> > back custom sounds when buttons/widgets are clicked.
>
> > Has anyone been able to figure out how to play sound within iPhone's
> > Safari *without* the full-screen interface? Or have seen a site that
> > behaves that way?
>
> So far I've not seen any web site on the iPhone that has embedded
> media of any kind that displays in the iSafari browser window.
>
> I am no expert at embedding media in web pages, but I do remember an
> Apple employee pointing to the public web pagehttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.htmland saying to be
D. Rich
different option that I could find, and everything opens up in the
full screen Quicktime window.
The Apple Documentation is no help.
I don't know how or if it can be done.
D. Rich
On Jul 6, 9:55 am, Don Shin <don.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> I tried replying earlier, but Google was acting funky at the time-
> unfortunately, the mime type change did not make it work; but thanks
> for the suggestion. I'll see you soon at the iPhone dev camp.
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
> On Jul 1, 6:52 pm, "Christopher Allen" <Christoph...@iPhoneWebDev.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 7/1/07, Don Shin <don.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > My company created Lumina, a casual game for iPhone:
>
> > >http://www.luminagame.com
>
> > > Performance is a bit sluggish on the iPhone, but the most
> > > disappointing aspect is the use embedded sound in Safari: it seems
> > > like all media files go into the full-screen custom media player
> > > interface when clicked. This basically makes it impossible to play
> > > back custom sounds when buttons/widgets are clicked.
>
> > > Has anyone been able to figure out how to play sound within iPhone's
> > > Safari *without* the full-screen interface? Or have seen a site that
> > > behaves that way?
>
> > So far I've not seen any web site on the iPhone that has embedded
> > media of any kind that displays in the iSafari browser window.
>
> > I am no expert at embedding media in web pages, but I do remember an
> > Apple employee pointing to the public web pagehttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.htmlandsaying to be
aimfire
My feelings are the same, not sure if it can be done, will hopefully
be addressed in the next version of iPhone Safari.
Good luck at the iPhone dev camp, maybe a workaround will be
discovered...
> > > Apple employee pointing to the public web pagehttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.htmlandsayingto be
brainchild2b
At wwdc apple clearly stated that all media would be played in a
separate window ONLY. Your only hope is apple releasing flash.