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play video on background on mobile

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  • meir kalmis 1 year, 8 months ago

    bsd

    is it possible to keep the video playing on mobile even when the playing app is minimized?

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  • Martin 2 years ago

    Hello Meir,

    We are doing some research, it seems if the picture in picture mode is activated, it can then keep playing.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    meir kalmis 2 years ago

    you mean sticky video?

    meir kalmis 2 years ago

    for me it doesnt work in sticky.
    i playes the video in mobile android , scrolled down and when i go to other app the video stops playing

    Martin 2 years ago

    Hello Meir,

    I don’t mean the FV Player Sticky Video feature, I mean the Picture in Picture video playback mode – which FV Player does not currently support.

    But I found I’m on wrong track with that Picture in Picture mode.

    I’m finding that if I play a video in FV Player and switch to another app, it stops playing. But then I can swipe down on the screen to opens the Control Center (that’s the name of it on iPhone, it’s called Quick Settings on Android).

    In these controls you will see the video playback controls – if a video was playing previously. And it lets you continue the playback right there – just tap to play and you will hear the video sound immediately. And you can then switch to some other app and keep listening to the video.

    This works on iOS 15.7, iOS 16.6 (Safari) and Android 13 (Chrome).

    You can also turn off the phone screen and it keeps playing.

    You can use it with YouTube too, but it seems a bit unreliable. Sometimes the video would not appear in these controls at all and I had to go back to the browser, resume the video, go to home screen and try to resume it in the swipe-down controls again. That was on iOS. On Android the YouTube video would not continue playing ever, not even if using YouTube.com.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Alec Kinnear 2 years ago
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    Hi Meir,

    First, we would like to improve background playback.

    My experience is that background playback is all over the place on iPhone. Please send us a sample website where background playback works the way you like. You’ll probably find that none of them work the way you like.

    What does work for me is either the YouTube app or Outplayer (with downloaded videos) or other apps. Background playback from the browser is very dicey in my experience.

    But please take a look around and send us a website (not an app) where background playback works the way you would like on both iOS and Windows.

    Thanks, Alec

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