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Asked: 2026-05-24T09:45:16+00:00

I have an html file named videoplay.html with following content <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>

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I have an html file named videoplay.html with following content

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>
        This is demo html file for playing movie file embedded.
    </p>
    <p>
        <video controls>
            <source src="myvideoname.mov">
        </video>
    </p>

</body>
</html>

while Using following code (Loading from application bundle) It loads html content and shows movie and able to play movie file.

NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]];
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"videoplay" ofType:@"html"];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
[self.webView loadHTMLString:content baseURL:baseURL];

Using following code (Loading from Document folder of application) It loads html content but shows black portion instead of movie file.

NSArray *documentPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDir =[documentPaths objectAtIndex:0]
NSString *pathOfHTmlFile = [documentsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"videoplay.html"];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:pathOfHTmlFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
[self.webView loadHTMLString:content baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:documentsDir]];

What am I missing in above code which cause my code not to work ? Any Idea ?

I want my application with feature UIFileSharingEnabled which enables user to put videos in the document folder itself so my video files would be in documents folder only.

Update for Bounty
I found something as follows. But still it only works for smaller videos(less than 50 MB approx) if videos are larger (greater than 100 MB approx) it is not working.

NSArray *documentPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDir =[documentPaths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *pathOfHTmlFile = [documentsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"videoplay.html"];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:pathOfHTmlFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];

documentsDir = [documentsDir stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@"//"];
documentsDir = [documentsDir stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"%20"];

NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"file:/%@//", documentsDir]];

NSLog(@"Baseurl--->%@",baseURL);
[self.webView loadHTMLString:content baseURL:baseURL];

As I must need to implement this in my project there is no other way to do for me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After lots of struggling and R&D I found that,

    Under Simulator 3.2 and on device with iOS 4.3.3 version, using following code it is working if HTML and Video files are at the same location. 

    NSArray *documentPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDir =[documentPaths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *pathOfHTmlFile = [documentsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"videoplay.html"];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:pathOfHTmlFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];

documentsDir = [documentsDir stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@"//"];
documentsDir = [documentsDir stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"%20"];

NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"file:/%@//", documentsDir]];

NSLog(@"Baseurl--->%@",baseURL);
[self.webView loadHTMLString:content baseURL:baseURL];

    Still under Simulator 4.2 it does not work. Instead of video it shows black portion. Yet unable to find the solution for Simulator 4.2 but it works on device so I guess code is absolutely fine.

    Posting this as answer so that if any one doing the same may be useful.

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