Video player corruption in social media video list

Question

I am attempting to create an app that has social media features like Instagram, Twitter, etc where you can post videos and watch them in a list. However, when the list reaches a certain point, all the videos end up loading 'corrupted'. (Only shows a play icon with a slash through it)

The problem only occurs on iOS. I have done a little research and it seems to stem from this issue .

I think that is the cause of my issue because if I use the solution from that thread and reload the page, the videos load fine once again.

However, I want this list to be as long as the user keeps scrolling. So if iOS has a limit on the number of videos that can be loaded at one time then how is one to accomplish making an infinite scroll?

Thanks,

Troy

Answer 1

Instead of loading videos stream them. It would save memory.
When video is out of view, pause the stream to keep bandwidth and save traffic.

Cheers!