René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Able Player Vimeo videos on iOS","articleBody":"Vimeo hosted videos do not work as expected with Able Player on iOS. The videos play with no sound, and the iOS default video player does not open. \n\nWe tested using the Able Player Vimeo demos: \n\n[Vimeo player (captions hosted on Vimeo)](https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/vimeo1.html) \n\n[Vimeo player (captions hosted via Local VTT Files)](https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/vimeo2.html) \n\nWe tested on two devices running different versions of iOS: \n\niOS 26 on 3rd Generation iPhone SE \n\niOS 18 on iPhone 12 Pro \n\n**Expectation** \n\nVideos will play with sound.  \n\nAfter tapping Play, the default iOS video player will open (this was the behavior in version 4.5.0), displaying the videos in full screen with the default iOS video player controls. \n\n**Actual behavior** \n\nAll four demo Vimeo hosted videos play with no sound in Safari (default iOS browser) and Chrome on iOS. They do have sound when played in Firefox on iOS. As expected, there are no volume controls available, other than the device's volume controls (side buttons). Changing the device volume does not affect the lack of sound in the videos. \n\nThe Vimeo videos on the Able Player demo site play as expected, with sound on Android devices and on macOS and Windows desktop devices.  \n\nThe sound issues appear related to Vimeo hosted videos. Other videos (HTML5, YouTube) on the Able Player demo site play with sound on iOS. \n\nThe four Vimeo hosted demo videos remain in Able Player on the webpage while playing. The iOS default video player does not open. Since the videos do not open in the iOS video player, they are not full screen. The videos on the webpage are small. The button to expand the videos opens them in a dialog that cannot be closed (see [GitHub issue #493](https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/issues/493)). The dialog does not substantially increase the size of the video. \n\nThe iOS player not opening may be related to the Able Player version. Other videos on the Able Player demo site do not open the iOS player, but videos using an older version (v4.5.0) of Able Player do: IU Web Framework video chunk [YouTube video](https://framework.iu.edu/creating-content/chunks/video/index.html) and [HTML5 video](https://framework.iu.edu/creating-content/chunks/video/html5.html).","author":{"url":"https://github.com/zttodd","@type":"Person","name":"zttodd"},"datePublished":"2025-10-23T16:48:28.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/696/ableplayer/issues/696"}