Parse-server: Playing video with PFFile.url not working

[Bragegs]

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Environment Setup

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(Local mongodb, windows server, iisnode)
I am having issues playing a video stored as PFFile(name: "video.mov", data: data!). I can download the file on mac with chrome by accessing the PFFile.url. On safari I cant. If i save the video as PFFile(data, contentType: "video/mp4") I can't access it from chrome either. The video is stored to a _User. It doesnt seem to download the url at all on ios-device.

(https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4 is used to test my IOS-code and works fine)

If i try to run the same code on my parse.com account it runs just fine and streams the video.

[hieuvo]

I'm having same issue, AVPlayer can play files from my personal server normally, but it cannot play files stored in Parse

[thibauddavid]

Not exactly same issue for me, but may be related.

I can download / stream a PFFile without issue, but when trying to get a thumbnail at a certain time of a video, AVFoundation returns "bad server configuration".

Request :
method=GET path="pathToMyFile.mov" host=myHost request_id=requestId fwd="ipAddress" dyno=web.1 connect=0ms service=15ms status=200 bytes=161657

[Bragegs]

IOS wants partiall content responses, I made it work somehow and made a document about it on here:

notehub - Parse-Server pffile-url stream with local mongodb

If anyone want to improve, please do!

[indiandragon]

@Bragegs You must submit a PR for your code. AFAIK your's is the only existing solution for streaming audio/video from parse-server hosted on heroku with mongo db backend.

[wooknight]

@Bragegs - I have verified that I have updated my Parse Server to the latest (2.3.7) but I cannot play video inside of IOS . Specifically using PFFILE from Parse IOS SDK . According to this link https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/pull/2437, your code had made it into the main branch but I cannot replicate your success . Can you please suggest what I need to do on the client side?

[wooknight]

@indiandragon - I have a heroku / mlab (mongodb) setup . How did you get your setup working?

[osvaldo1963]

use the url from pffile it will never work using pffile directly

[indiandragon]

@wooknight , sorry for the delayed reply. Later ParseServer versions fixed this issue.

I'm using 2.6.3 currently.