Mobile Player Question

After I installed sermonspeaker the first time, playback worked great. But now all I get is a small window with a play arrow, but no playback. It works fine on the full website. Any ideas?


www.bronstonbaptist.com

Check under menu option Online-Videos to see the problem.

Thanks in advance for any help

What version of SermonSpeaker and Joomla are you using?

I think with "playback" you mean the popup window?

Joomla 2.5.8

Sermon Speaker 4.4

In the full site version, when you click the sermon title, it takes you to a screen with the embedded JW player which starts automatically and works fine. On a mobile device, you have to "touch" the sermon title twice, taking you to a screen like the full site version, but JW Player is scaled to a small window with the play arrow. The video doesn't start automatically like the full site version and when you "touch" the arrow, it tries to download the video. This action just confuses iOS but Android actually starts downloading the file.

What the mobile device does is up to the mobile device.
The thing is that Flash isn't supported on most mobile devices, and thus JW Player falls back to a HTML5 player. With HTML5 it's up to the browser and the OS what will happen. iOS will load each video in a native app, that's why it's loaded fullscreen. Also it doesn't support autostart. If Android downloads the file, its browser probably doesn't support the selected fileformat. That's another issue with HTML5: there is no standard fileformat which each browser has to support.

So in short: What you see is not primary a SermonSpeaker issue but a HTML5 issue.