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I'm running Apache as a web server on OSX Mavericks on a home machine. Videos in the HTML5 <video> tag do not play on iOS devices. They do play on other devices (laptop, desktop, OSX, Windows, Firefox, …)

The required AddType directives are present in an .htaccess file.

The same videos with the same HTML do play on iOS devices if I put them on my hosting service, which also runs Apache.

The sample video in the W3Schools <video> tag also runs on iOS, but if I copy that video onto my home server it again fails to play on iOS devices.

The only difference I can observe is that my Apache server runs on top of OSX Mavericks.

The HTML is very simple:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video width="320" height="240">
<source src="test.mp4" type="video/mp4; codecs=avc1.42E01E,mp4a.40.2" />
</object>
</video>
</body>
</html>

Here is a dump of the headers for the video:

$ curl --head cailliaucloud.org/Alphabetical/aa/mov_bbb.mp4
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:59:35 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) PHP/5.4.30 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8za DAV/2
Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:29:01 GMT
ETag: "c080d-4ef49e3d6d140"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 788493
MS-Author-Via: DAV
Vary: User-Agent
Content-Type: video/mp4

Any suggestions?

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  • (the actual url is a little different from the simplified on I used in the question original)
    – Robert Cailliau
    Commented Sep 17, 2016 at 13:10
  • I think this StackOverflow question has the answers you need: HTML5 Video tag not working in Safari , iPhone and iPad
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Commented Sep 17, 2016 at 13:48
  • This question appears to be off-topic because it is about web development which is off-topic at Pro Webmasters. Web development questions may be asked at Stack Overflow but be sure to read their FAQ before posting to ensure your question meets their guidelines.
    – John Conde ♦
    Commented Sep 17, 2016 at 21:14
  • this question is about Apache configuration, how is that off-topic?
    – Robert Cailliau
    Commented Sep 18, 2016 at 19:00
  • Thanks Stephen, I had already followed those but it did not help. It all works if the files run on Apache on my hosting service, but not if they run exactly the same way on Mavericks' s Apache. Same htaccess etc.
    – Robert Cailliau
    Commented Sep 18, 2016 at 19:03

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