Playing Video - Server is not correctly configured - 12939

I have an ios app with laravel (lumen) on the server side. I am trying to play the videos in the server, on application.

I am using a Player that plays videos with a direct link (e.g vine video link), however when I save the same vine video on my local server, the application doesn't play the video. In fact, when I try the video with my api route, surprisingly it plays the video on Chrome! But on the application end, I receive error:

The server is not correctly configured - 12939

(Please note that if I copy the same mp4 file into the xCode project, add it on 'copy bundle resources', and try with fileWithPath, it works. So I believe it's definitely caused by the server, not vidoo file/codec. )

My route:$app->get('/player/{filename}', '[email protected]');

Methods:

public function show ($filename)
{
  $this->playVideo($filename, 'recordings');
}

public function playVideo($filename, $showType)
{
    if (file_exists("../uploads/" . $showType . "/" . $filename)) {
        $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
        $type = finfo_file($finfo, "../uploads/" . $showType . "/" . $filename);


        header("Content-Type: " . $type);
        readfile("../uploads/" . $showType . "/" . $filename);
    }
}

To recap my problem, the video is playing on Chrome but receiving '12939' - 'Server is not correctly configured' on the mobile app.

Edit:

I tried using this as mentioned in the Apple Documentations:

curl --range 0-99 http://myapi.dev/test.mp4 -o /dev/null

However the documentation says:

"If the tool reports that it downloaded 100 bytes, the media server correctly handled the byte-range request. If it downloads the entire file, you may need to update the media server."

I received 100% and it downloaded the whole file for me, so I believe this is my problem. But I am not sure how to overcome this issue? What am I doing wrong? What should I do?

To wrap up, this solved my problem:

• Placed this to VideoController:

  public function streamVideo() 
  {
    $video_path = 'somedirectory/somefile.mp4';
    $stream = new VideoStream($video_path);
    $stream->start(); 
  }
  

• and then created a file in app > helpers > VideoStream.php:

   <?php
   {
       private $path = "";
       private $stream = "";
       private $buffer = 102400;
       private $start  = -1;
       private $end    = -1;
       private $size   = 0;
  
       function __construct($filePath) 
       {
           $this->path = $filePath;
       }
  
       /**
        *      * Open stream
        *           */
       private function open()
       {
           if (!($this->stream = fopen($this->path, 'rb'))) {
               die('Could not open stream for reading');
           }
  
       }
  
       /**
        *      * Set proper header to serve the video content
        *           */
       private function setHeader()
       {
           ob_get_clean();
           header("Content-Type: video/mp4");
           header("Cache-Control: max-age=2592000, public");
           header("Expires: ".gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', time()+2592000) . ' GMT');
           header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', @filemtime($this->path)) . ' GMT' );
           $this->start = 0;
           $this->size  = filesize($this->path);
           $this->end   = $this->size - 1;
           header("Accept-Ranges: 0-".$this->end);
  
           if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'])) {
  
               $c_start = $this->start;
               $c_end = $this->end;
  
               list(, $range) = explode('=', $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'], 2);
               if (strpos($range, ',') !== false) {
                   header('HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable');
                   header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/$this->size");
                   exit;
               }
               if ($range == '-') {
                   $c_start = $this->size - substr($range, 1);
               }else{
                   $range = explode('-', $range);
                   $c_start = $range[0];
  
                   $c_end = (isset($range[1]) && is_numeric($range[1])) ? $range[1] : $c_end;
               }
               $c_end = ($c_end > $this->end) ? $this->end : $c_end;
               if ($c_start > $c_end || $c_start > $this->size - 1 || $c_end >= $this->size) {
                   header('HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable');
                   header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/$this->size");
                   exit;
               }
               $this->start = $c_start;
               $this->end = $c_end;
               $length = $this->end - $this->start + 1;
               fseek($this->stream, $this->start);
               header('HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content');
               header("Content-Length: ".$length);
               header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/".$this->size);
           }
           else
           {
               header("Content-Length: ".$this->size);
           }  
  
       }
  
       /**
        *      * close curretly opened stream
        *           */
       private function end()
       {
           fclose($this->stream);
           exit;
       }
  
       /**
        *      * perform the streaming of calculated range
        *           */
       private function stream()
       {
           $i = $this->start;
           set_time_limit(0);
           while(!feof($this->stream) && $i <= $this->end) {
               $bytesToRead = $this->buffer;
               if(($i+$bytesToRead) > $this->end) {
                   $bytesToRead = $this->end - $i + 1;
               }
               $data = fread($this->stream, $bytesToRead);
               echo $data;
               flush();
               $i += $bytesToRead;
           }
       }
  
       /**
        *      * Start streaming video content
        *           */
       function start()
       {
           $this->open();
           $this->setHeader();
           $this->stream();
           $this->end();
       }
   }
  

Source: http://laravel.io/forum/10-06-2014-streaming-video-files-with-laravel