Cannot play video about apple HOT 10 CLOSED

After some further investigation, I found that in the raw html, there indeed is a source tag.
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However, this a webm video, which is not supported by UIWebView(source). Because of that, the loaded webpage doesn't have a source tag in video.

One way to solve the issue is that we use mp4 video (type="video/mp4").

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This issue is not caused by the app itself. It's just iOS doesn't support webm.

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I re-open the issue as we have the issue and need a strategy.

So far I see the following alternatives:

• Use an external library to render the video properly in the HTML renderer (best solution)
• Replace in all our ZIM files, the usage of webm with mp4 (so far I can see this is impossible due to the license costs... but not 100% sure)
• Remove all ZIM with videos from the catalog for iOS
• If user want to play such a video, invite him to install a webm video player and make the whole stuff works well between kiwix and this third party app

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A few links:

• https://github.com/brion/OGVKit
• https://wiki.videolan.org/VLCKit/

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be now be reviewed manually. Thank you for your contributions.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be now be reviewed manually. Thank you for your contributions.

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The fundamental problem has been solved. If video don't play now, this is a problem with the ZIM themselves. @rgaudin Would you agree to close that ticket?

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No, it has only been solved for iOS. Do you want to open a separate bug for macOS?

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@rgaudin yes please if this is still not done. iOS and macOS versions of Kiwix should not have tickets in common.

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See also #189

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