Full video on Lock Screen?

**elr0y7** · 11-26-2008, 05:46 AM

Been lookin everywhere and I haven't found an answer to this: Is there a way to put a full blown video (not an .html file or image) on your lock screen? I know you can put one on your home screen but I tried to put the same video on the lock screen (it's .mp4 format) and it doesn't show. I realize how much more complicated the lock screen is (and honestly I'm ok with just having an image on it) but I was just curious.

**chrisrotolo** · 02-04-2009, 05:50 PM

smae here, had itoday on 1.1.4, but I'd like to know why it cant be done. I know it can be hacked, anything can. I cant find a single thing about it.

**roy_swinkels** · 03-19-2009, 09:21 AM

also been looking a long time...all i could find are .gif´s
sorry

**Jahooba** · 01-30-2010, 07:03 PM

That's a good question. I tried to make a video wallpaper but I have no reliable way of actually using it. I tried vWallpaper but it crashes my iPod (I have to open SSH and delete the vWallpaper folder and reboot to end the crashes).

And using Winterboard sucks because there's a long black pause at the end of the loop.

Now my only hope is video lockscreen, which I imagine does not exist.

**FreeApple** · 03-30-2010, 08:42 PM

I know people have yet to figure this out. I know this will have to be in html, but I do not know how to write it. I have this so far

<html>
<head>
<title>ipod</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<vid src="ipod_intro.mp4" width="320" height="480" alt="">

</body>
</html>

but just shows black Iam not shure what else....hopefully the right person reads this and is kind enough to just post a code!!!

**Xiphoz** · 08-16-2010, 10:26 AM

Has anyone figured this out yet? I have been attempting to get this to work all morning.

I got it to work with a .gif file that I converted from an mp4 but it was like 50 mb in size and was very sluggish.

I've been trying with an .mp4 video for a bit now, and I can get it to display on the lockscreen, but you have to press the play button for it to start, and then it plays as if it were in iTunes.

I've tried placing autoplay in the code, but it doesn't seem to work. Also, I read that Apple disabled autoplay on purpose due to something in regards with bandwidth and ATT, not sure how legit that claim is, but anyone have any ideas?

Current code: (If anything is wrong, just point it out, I am not good with programming so I kind of threw this together)

<html>
<head>
<title>ipod</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<video width="320" height="480" autoplay>
<source src="Lockscreen.mp4" width="320" height="480" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1,42E01E,mp4a.40.2" '>
</video>

</body>
</html>

**Jahooba** · 08-16-2010, 10:45 AM

I would guess the problem is with the buffer size available for the lockscreen. You probably have very little RAM to work with.

I'm guessing the buffer for the lockscreen is hard-coded into the OS, which is beyond my understanding, but I doubt there's any way to use some kind of tricky HTML to get it to work. But don't let me discourage you, I'm just guessing here!

I would try to minimize the images you're using to only a handful of kilobytes. Of course, it will look bad...

**Xiphoz** · 08-16-2010, 10:52 AM

When I tried with a .gif file, the file was 140 mb in size >_> which was WAY to large for my liking and it seemed to run very very very sluggish. The mp4 file is around 6.8 mb, and works flawlessly when played, but I want it to be able to autostart and stay on the lockscreen and play instead of going into an iTunes like window.

Anyway, I'll keep looking and messing around and if I find anything, I'll post it. If anyone has any tips or ideas, let me know, I'll give it a shot.

**ara369** · 08-24-2010, 11:24 AM

I have the same question. .mp4 works for background, why not lockscreen? I don't understand HTML that well and frankly, i'm getting frustrated with it. i want to use the blue vortex vwallpaper, overlay with lightning and use that as a lockscreen. gif files ain't gonna cut it. how would i use html to do that?

**chrisrotolo** · 08-25-2010, 10:23 PM

HTML is fine with me as long as the phone will still DIM and SLEEP.

**rasputin007** · 08-28-2010, 05:01 PM

You can put mp4 format videos on the lockscreen, however there is a little drawback. Apple has disabled the autoplay function on OS/iOS. Apple says it did that so that videos that are on remote servers are not downloaded automatically when autoplay would be active and cost money using your data plan.
Anyway you can have a "place holder" on the lockscreen that will act as a start button, but as soon as you touch this Quicktime will open the video in full screen and play it. When finished you have to close Quicktime to go back to the lockscreen.
Needless to say you would need to install Lockscreen Dim Delay from Cydia or watching your video is very short lived because of the default lockscreen time out.

**chrisrotolo** · 09-02-2010, 02:22 PM

Apple haz disabled the auto play function, yessir thank you for that information. Very smart, and now all we have to do is re-enable it. Any ideas where to begin?
--i miss iToday from 1.1.4, into .mp4s with sound. a bit laggy/choppy but that was cool.

**chrisrotolo** · 09-04-2010, 04:07 PM

just code auto play in to the html, no?

**rasputin007** · 09-07-2010, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by chrisrotolo

just code auto play in to the html, no?

Does not work.

User Control of Downloads Over Cellular Networks
In Safari on iPhone OS (for all devices, including iPad), where the user may be on a cellular network and be
charged per data unit, autobuffering and autoplay are disabled. No data is loaded until the user initiates it.
This means the JavaScript play() and load() methods are also inactive until the user initiates playback, unless the play() method is triggered by user action. In other words, a user-initiated Play button works, but an onLoad play event does not.
This plays the movie: <input type="button" value="Play" onClick="document.myMovie.play()">

This does nothing on iPhone OS: <body onLoad="document.myMovie.play()">

Source: "Using_HTML5_Audio_Video.pdf" from Apple

**chrisrotolo** · 09-07-2010, 02:19 PM

i am a n00b at coding, how about code in a (play click action pressed) as if it were really pressed and tell it to stop or loop ( pressed again)? ORrrrr, remove this auto play line from the OS or just set it to false..

--trying to keep hope alive.

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