Hello,

I'm trying to develop an iPhone/iPod Touch web app, allowing to watch
online video. It's something YouTube alike: a web site (served from a
JAVA application server) exposing the catalog in HTML format and
serving the movies (over HTTP). To play the movie, the iPhone/iPod
Touch apparently launches the internal movie player. So far everything
OK. What I need however is:

- when the user selects a movie, the movie should start playing from a
certain location/bookmark (stored in a database). For PC clients, I
achieve this by having my active web server send a HTML file in which
the link to the video player gets an additional parameter: the start
time. On the iPhone I'd like to do something similar.
- when the user stops playing the movie as well as on regular
intervals, I need to client/player to send the current location in the
movie to the web server. For PC client I do this using a little
Javascript and some AJAX. Every minute, the timer activates a
Javascript function that gets the current position from the video
player and sends it to the web server. Since on the iPhone/iPod Touch
playing is done using the internal player such is not possible.

If anybody has any idea how I could make this work just like for PC
clients, please let me know. Your help is very appreciated. Or are
there other ways? I'd prefer not having to do any client side coding
(other than HTML, Javascript). Server side however I'm open to all
options (more or less :-) ).

Thanks,
Sven.

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