I had always heard this was a disabled feature on all mobile devices but I was corrected earlier today when I went to youtube.com from my android phone and lo and behold, it played on its own. Is this possible with jwplayer? Is it possible on any other player other than youtube?I've tried this in the past using all the built in features as well as some javascript workarounds such as clicking the play button when the page has loaded.
I understand bandwidth usage but what about streaming media sites that users KNOW they are about to watch a video.. after-all that's why they went to that site.
I never have seen that a video is opened automatically in mobiles or tablets.
I just tried myselft with youtube, and it does not play automatically if you use the web browser. However It does play automatically if you open the video with the youtube app.
Can you provide a link where this is happening? and the details of where are you testing this (browser, device,...) ?
Some Android devices may allow it to autostart. iPad may allow it. iPad does allow inline videos to play one at a time.
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I provide a mobile site on which users are able to watch videos (embedded via HTML5 video). My users request that the video should continue to play if they switch to another app or lock the screen to save battery. It would be okay, if they have to "Phone-OS-level-ACK" this background play behavior before switching to another app.
Is there something I can do on my mobile page to support this kind of behavior? I've read that Chrome >= 54 should have support to do this, but my videos still stop immediately after switching to another app. What kind of sorcery is required to support that feature for my users?
It will pop in your notification bar and you can play from there. Just make sure your Google Chome has permission to post notifications
I am using Crosswalk to develop a HTML5 app. Now i have a problem with playback of embedded youtube videos within the website. I have the same issue testing the website in Chrome browser. There is no issue testing in Dolphin Browser or android default browser (< Android 4.3).
I had the problem in the past also with default android browser, but i can enable playback by setting user-agent to desktop browser. That doesn't work for the crosswalk browser.
If i run the app not on a smartphone but on a tablet it works, also in Chrome with default settings.
Does anybody has an idea/solution to enable video playback on smartphone?
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Solved. Google's intention was, that every Android Smartphone would have installed the same basic codecs.
It seems that not every manufactor of cheap Android Smartphone (from China in this case) meets these requirements (even if Play Store is installed).
There is a way to display installed codecs on smartphone.
I am trying to add a html5 video in my website however the video doesnt play in Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (Android 4.1.1). I used videojs as my plugin. To make sure that the device really can play those videos, I visited this (http://praegnanz.de/html5video) website and try to play they're each video but unfortunately it didn't. I wonder what cause the issues and I am hoping for any help. Thank you!
please check whether your stock browser supports html5
Try installing chrome or Opera web browser
There are a few things you must check, depending on the web browser you're using :
Video format: Some browsers accept H264/MP4 but not WebM (or vice versa).
autoplay: Some browsers (like Chrome for Android) do not respect the autoplay attribute, to save bandwith. On these browsers, an explicit user action is required (like a click).
i've ported some Apps from Android to Blackberry (by repacking them with the Blackberry tools). Most of the App seems to work fine, however i con not get the Videos to work.
The Loading indicator appears (but does not spin). Nothing else Happens (No Exceptions or anything on the LogCat or Console. After I while i get the Dialog which ask me if i want to shut down the App as it is not reacting.
Has anybody ever managed to Play Videos using the Android API on Blackberry 10?
Are there any tricks to use? Like just using special Video Formats or anything else i need to know?
If you are doing this in the simulator, there are no codecs present there.
I now have Feedback from RIM. Some Networkprotocols are not supported for Video(streaming):
http://developer.blackberry.com/android/apisupport/unsupportedapi_blackberry10_network_protocols.html . And some more Bad News: They also say "it will also not be supported with the final OS-update at launch".
The company I work for produces a lot of video and we want to target as many devices as possible, but the question came up of what does the Android do?
I personally own an Android based phone running 2.1, but I can't seem to get the HTML 5 tag to work. Even when I can trigger the browser to playback the video it just throws a notification error that it can't.
Are there guidelines to producing Android/HTML 5 compatible videos? Is it truly supported?
The android 2.1 browser currently does not support the html5 video tag the way the iphone browser does. To get the android browser to play the video when you click on the poster image you need to add onclick="this.play();" to the video tag. However, this launches a separate "window" and does not play the video in the same browser "window".
The only information I could find with details about whether Android 2.1 has the ability to play html5-video is here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/400dc61d41530242/c071c0f9712f7171?lnk=gst&q=html5#c071c0f9712f7171
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