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There might be a chance that you are mistakenly encoding your video in a video stream or on demand format? I only say this because it does appear that the system is rendering start time based off some segment boundary, which is why it is launching a few seconds away from your intended target.

This is taken directly from Apple documentation:

initialPlaybackTime
The time, specified in seconds within the video timeline, when playback should start.

@property (nonatomic) NSTimeInterval initialPlaybackTime

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For progressively downloaded content, playback starts at the closest key frame prior to the provided time. For video-on-demand content, playback starts at the nearest segment boundary to the provided time. For live video streams, the playback start time is measured from the start of the current playlist and is rounded to the nearest segment boundary.
The default value of this property is -1, which indicates the natural start time of the movie.
Alright,

I am going to escalate this bug within the company.

Thanks.
I certainly can.
correct, eventually we would like to see an alias work in that situation, but our texttemplate is a little more advanced and hasn't gotten the treatment that some of the other tags have.

thanks for sticking it out and getting it to work!
You will not be able to populate your HTML attribute for your web tag like you have here. The html attribute will not support a value that is an alias unfortuantely. You will need to run it through an action.



<main>
<web name=textgoeshere" alias="TEXTGOES" width="460" height="800" align="center" ypos="20" html="" transparent="yes"></web>
<texttemplate name="reader" ><![CDATA[
<html>
<head>
<meta content="width=100%, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, initial-scale=1" name="viewport">
<style> body{width:80%;margin:0 auto;color:#222222;font-family:Georgia;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em;background-color:#eeeeee;padding:50px 20px 50px 10px;} h1 {color:#3b3b3c;font-size:28;line-height:1.15em;margin-top:0px;text-align:center;} h2{margin-bottom:10px;color:#d7554b;font-size:15;font-weight:bold;font-family:helvetica;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:center;} h3{font-size:15px;font-weight:normal;color:#898989;text-align:center;border-top:1px solid #bbb;border-bottom:1px solid #bbb;padding:5px 0px;} h3 span{white-space:nowrap;font-style:italic;} p {text-align:justify;}img {max-width:100% !important;} a {color:#444444;border-bottom:1px solid #b2372c;text-decoration:none;} img {display:block;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom:25px;} span.image-rss {display:none;} </style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>[param:category]</h2>
<h1>[param:title]</h1>
<h3> <span>by [param:creator] </span> </h3>
[param:content]
</body>
</html>
]]></texttemplate>
</main>

<actions>
<action name="assignContent" oninit="yes">
<assign property="object:TEXTGOES.html" value="[template:reader.content]" />
</action>
</actions>

If you want it to happen on load, then add an attribute to your action tag called oninit="yes" . This will cause your action to trigger when the App is launched.


<action name="assignContent" oninit="yes">
<assign property="object:MyWebObjectAlias.html" value="[template:reader.content]" />
</action>
@elinberg,

Are you still having issues or is this topic ready to close?
Just an update. We are still looking into the cause of this issue and should have it resolved soon.
This bug has been fixed and is queued up for the next release.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I will look into this and confirm it as a bug.