HTML5 video, iOS 8 & 9, poster

Created: 10/14/14 11:23am Last modified: 2/12/16 1:35pm

This page used to display the first frame of a movie automatically in mobile Safari and iOS Chrome under iOS 7, but now in iOS 8 and iOS 9, there's just a play triangle -- no image!

Desktop browsers show the first frame (all black) of this video absolutely fine.

Now, in order to have a image display on iOS, you have to explicitly create a jpeg and then include the poster=filename.jpg in the video tag.