.mov from iPhone won't play when downloaded using mail

Question

And when my daughter sends me movies from her iPhone. Some play, some don't when downloaded using Apple Mail. They all play when downloaded using Gmail. They all play within the mail App on my iPad.
When viewing the information on these files in Finder, the difference seems to be that in the ones that do play, a codec appears likeTin the image:

Answer 1

Scuba Steve,
Sorry, I did click on varkgirl's link instead of yours at first. But clicking on your link, I think I know what you problem is. I think that you problem is that the footer on your page is obscuring the movie controller bar and not letting you click on it. I've been trying to tell people on this forum off and on to pay attention to the values in the Inspector Page tab. What you need to do first is to go under the View menu and select "Show Layout" so you can see what is happening. Now go to the Inspector and click on the Page tab. You will see a set of values that define your page dimensions. What you need to do is to adjust the value for Content Height so that it actually encompasses all of your page content. The space for page content actually dynamically resizes things as you drag them down the page, but this value never changes from the default. It has always been my feeling that this leads to problems in the rendering of pages (depending on browser) because it gives the browser some leeway in how it renders the footer-to-body transition. This can lead to shifting of images up the page or something like you have, which is inadvertant obscuring of elements by the footer element.
So adjust the Content Height to something like 1100. You should see the footer bar in the layout move down. Now fine adjust it so that it is closer to the bottom of your QT movie without obscuring the controller bar. Now republish. I think that you will see that you controller bar now works. BTW. Double clicking on the movie frame will always work as play/pause, too, as you have found.
Let me know if this solves your problem.