mp4 movie does not play with the flowplayer iPad plugin

I am trying to run an mp4 movie using the iPad plugin of flowplayer. Unfortunately all I get is an empty player with a strike through player button. I could not find any information what that means?

First thing I tried was putting the absolute path to the movie in the href attribute but the movie didn't work on localhost.

When I put the absolute path to an example movie hosted on stream.flowplayer.org it worked. But the same movie didn't work on localhost. That brought me to the conclusion that some special configuration for the apache server is necessary to let the video run.

Could you please help? Here is my code:

<a href="movie.mp4" id="flash" style="display:block;width:640px;height:360px;"></a>
    <script>
      $f("flash", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.10.swf", {
        clip:  {
          autoPlay: true,
          autoBuffering: true
        }
      }).ipad();
    </script>

Solution

<a href="movie.mp4" id="flash" style="display:block;width:640px;height:360px;"></a>

<script>
  $f("flash", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.10.swf", {
    clip:  {
      url:"mp4:movie",    // change this
      autoPlay: true,
      autoBuffering: true
    }
  }).ipad();
</script>