Question

I’m trying to embed a vimeo video into my app using UIWebView.

Currently my code looks like this and it plays the video fine if you press play, but I would like it to play when the UIWebView loads and I’m not sure how to make that happen.

NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://player.vimeo.com/video/123456?autoplay=1"];

NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:videoURL];
UIWebView * SignUpVideo = [[UIWebView alloc] init];

MyVideo.frame = CGRectMake(0,125,781,481);

[self.view addSubview:SignUpVideo];

[MyVideo loadRequest:requestObj];

This is placed under -(void)viewDidLoad

Answer 1

The autoplay URL parameter doesn’t work in Mobile Safari either. I’m thinking you may be out of luck unless you can get a URL for a direct stream. But in that case you could use the AVPlayer instead of a web view and have all of the flexibility you need.

Here is an interesting discussion about the vimeo direct link URLs: How can I find download links for vimeo videos? . However, according to that, vimeo doesn’t allow that technique so you might want to take a look a the developer APIs here: https://developer.vimeo.com

Best regards.