I need to play a video with fullscreen when a user plays it.
Unfortunately, as far as I understand, if the HTML5 Video tag is used, Android plays it in-frame. So that tried webkitEnterFullScreen() and it seems to work(kind of...) but user has to click the play button again. Overall performance feels a bit clumsy and not sure if old OS like 2.0+ could handle it.
As an alternative method, I'm now trying to play video using direct link rather than the Video tag. For example, [a href="video.mp4"]Click to play[/a]. I think that it works well but the only problem is that it asks to choose a application either 'Video Player' or 'Browser'.
So my question is
How can I define using javascript to play the video using Video Player, so that the selection dialog won't prompt?.
What is the native video player for Android? For example, iOS uses Quicktime and it is possible to embed video using Quicktime object. And are there any equivalent method for Android?
When the Video tag is used, how to play video simultaneously with fullscreen?
try following code :
String path1="/path/to/video/file.3gp";
Uri uri=Uri.parse(path1);
VideoView video=(VideoView)findViewById(R.id.VideoView01);
video.setVideoURI(uri);
video.start();
You have to realize something very important: There is no native video player for android.
There is a dozens players for android and it is not your decision but the users decision if he should use player A or B. Don't try to force Android users to iOS behavior, it really doesn't give a better impression.
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I am trying to play a video inside my app. Now as a source I only have the public URL of the video, e.g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnPN6YxPuc
Can i use this to play the video inside the app, like using the videoView or MediaPlayer or something like that? The video can be from any provider, not specifically from Youtube e.g Vimeo, Dailymotion etc.
Currently i am using intent on click and it opens the browser or some app if installed and plays the video there. I want it to play inline. Webview is an option but the problem is Android v 4 > has good HTML5 support n bad Flash support, and <4 have good flash and bad HTMl5.
Is it the only option i have? Any pointers would be a great help.
I have a few app to watch live streams and video clips.
The applications use embeded android video player.
After a search, i recongnized that these apps using VideoView class.
But i want to choice an external player to watch videos which triggered from this apps. (like MX Player or GP Player.)
I think i have to override the videoview class in android. Is this possible?
Or are there any other way to implement this?
Thanks.
May be i can override the Android source files. Is this possible?
No.
Moreover, it would not necessarily work, as there is no requirement that the video be available for viewing in a third-party app. Just because an app can play a video itself does not mean that the same video is accessible by other apps.
Here the short of it.
I'm using an HLS stream with JWPlayer6 for an iOS/Android app I am working on. JWPlayer http://www.longtailvideo.com/ works well and fallbacks to other streaming and player types gracefully. The problem is this, when I want to securely play back audio only in iOS the player is just a condensed black rectangle with a play icon in the middle if I click on the audio it plays fine but it launches the file in quicktime window, and the quicktime player window completely covers the app so you can't listen to the file and continue to use the app.
Is there any possible way to play an audio only stream that utilizes an actually embed-able player instead of the default mechanism of launching audio media types on iOS and Android.
I have already used JPlayer to achieve the functionality I want by placing the js/css player at the bottom of the app in a fixed position so that you can still browse the app while the file is being played, but this is only demo solution for my boss to show him how it would work, but in the end we will need a solution that can securely stream the audio with a player that lets you keep the controls in-app on the page rather than launching quicktime which even after playing the file does not return you to the apps other views.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Lol...anyway finally figured out a solution that works for me in my particular case. Since the html side of things for our application resides in a webview on iOS, thanks to phonegap, I was able to do the following.
HTML5 inline video on iPhone vs iPad/Browser
and now the player finally plays inline just like the iPad. I tested this and it works flawlessly. I also tested it without added the obj-c flag in the app code and it does not work. This means the solution I've provided only works if you are packaging you application using html and obj-c like with phonegap or Titanium etc. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Now I can use all of jw's awesomeness and still play nice with iOS and give a great user experience to all of our members...thanks for you time and patience. As a side note the inline audio only player even works flawlessly with Android to write of of the box not java code needed to edit anything. Surprised me because I know how HLS is not really all that well supported yet on the Androids.
I would like to play a HTML5 video back to the user directly in the native android video player.
My current setup takes way too much effort to get into the native video player: Currently I have a WebView with an embedded HTML5 video (such as a Youtube or Vimeo HTML5, not flash, embed). The user has to hit play on the video, and then hit the fullscreen button (on far right in the picture below)
Then it opens in the native player which looks like this:
The native player is a View is a much better experience for video playback. (I believe it is a VideoView? though maybe it is different in newer versions of Android. It is a View within my Activity so provides extra control. See this post for more info.)
I'm looking for a graceful way of directly launching into this experience instead of having to load the embed in a WebView and then leaving it to the user to tap the full screen button.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I am trying to design a video website compatible with Android. A good example of what I'm trying to achieve is vimeo.com. They show a thumbnail of a video. When you tap it, the native Android player comes up in full screen:
Currently, I have an anchor to an FLV containing an h.264 encoded video:
click here to watch
When you tap the anchor on Android, it downloads the video rather than plays it. That's not what I want. How do I get it to play full screen in the native player like Vimeo? But unlike Vimeo, I would like the video to expand so that there's not so much black empty space around the actual video.
Ahh I see what you mean, clicking a Vimeo video opens the Android dialog of selecting which app should respond to that request (in my case just the browser (which downloads the file) or video player (which opens and plays it as you wanted)). This is normal Android behavior- if you have not defined which app should respond to a given request, it will ask you to select from among the supporting applications.
Have you even tried embedding a video in the way suggested through the link I gave you? You may find that it will have the exact effect the Vimeo video does. HTML5 <video> element on Android
EDIT: Actually I think your real problem is probably just that the file format you're using (.flv) is not among the core media formats supported by Android. http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
if you have the correct codec installed to play the video and doesn't work, check and make sure you have the correct mime types configured and that something in the registry or a file isn't overwriting.
use the old standard of defining mp4 and falling back to flash.
In mobile Safari and Android webkit there are javascript methods and events defined on the Video object that can help with this. There is another StackOverflow question dealing with this topic (for iPad, but I have used this on Android phones as well).
Web App - iPad webkitEnterFullscreen - Programatically going full-screen video
Mobile Safari documentation: http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AudioVideo/Reference/HTMLVideoElementClassReference/HTMLVideoElement/HTMLVideoElement.html