Unable to stream Video using PFFile

[wooknight]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43360204/unable-to-view-videos-in-ios-app-uploaded-to-heroku-s3-via-parse-server

I would be grateful for any pointers here

[ZacharyKhan]

Check #1440, may help your situation.

[natanrolnik]

Closing as duplicate of #1440, #326, #692, #2127, #1698 and #1973
@wooknight hope you got it working.

[wooknight]

@ZacharyKhan
I did check #1440 and updated my parse server to 2.3.7 which according to @gfosco does have the updates that I need but it has not solved the issue at all

@natanrolnik
I know it sounds like a duplicate but I have updated my parse server . I have updated my Parse IOS SDK and I still get the same issue . I pinged the original authors if they could document their steps but have not received a response

[ZacharyKhan]

I was able to get this to work a while ago using amazon S3 to store the video files. Basically, store the video as a PFFile and make sure to set the mime type for MP4.

Then, when retrieving a video file, get the URL string from the pffile and load the video into your player.

[wooknight]

@ZacharyKhan
Truly appreciate you taking the time here . I will try those steps and get back to you

[ZacharyKhan]

@wooknight no problem. Posting your code/errors also would help :)

[wooknight]

@ZacharyKhan . Thank you again . This is the code that uploads the file

file = [PFFile fileWithData:videoContentData contentType:@"video/mp4"];
       [selectedExperienceObject setObject:file forKey:@"video_comment"];
       MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:self.videoURL];
       player.shouldAutoplay = NO;

This is a file that was uploaded to S3

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/speedrate/37c02e3efb521608326fdb6577c92c83_file.mp4

I am still not sure what I am missing here. Thank you for your help

[flovilmart]

What’s the content type header on the file on S3?

[wooknight]

Hi Flo, I believe that the header is set to the correct type from what I read in the resolution of the previous issues [image: Inline image 1] Regards Ramesh Naidu

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[flovilmart]

Image doesn’t seem uploaded.

[wooknight]

Thank you for taking the time to help with this

This is the file on S3

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/speedrate/4ab48fc8a45f1eee32b477b4ad4152ba_file.mp4

[flovilmart]

I’m able to open the file in safari (iOS 11) so it should work right from the URL as AVURLAsset in AVPlayer

[flovilmart]

Or MPMoviePlayerController given that the URL is calid

[wooknight]

Thanks Flo . I am running this on Heroku so the url that I get back is as follows

http://speedrate.herokuapp.com/parse/files/JouG4uxCS5XxQ8Q7VCH9Z8mqnxbAXh3HkMSoEuHc/47f20cc4d8f1818f6c88fc82b30a3213_file.mp4

and while that URL shows up fine on other browsers , it does not show up in Safari . I tried the equivalent S3 url
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/speedrate/47f20cc4d8f1818f6c88fc82b30a3213_file.mp4
It runs fine in Safari ( and all the other browsers)

Do I need to replace the URL inside the IOS code ? before playing the video ?

Thanks for your help

[flovilmart]

You should probably configure parseServer and the S3 adapter for direct access so all URL's will be pointing to S3 directly instead of parse-server.