HTML5 video will not loop on Android devices - android

After some hours of trying, I want to ask how to loop a video on Android devices using the HTML5 video tag.
To be some kind of browser independent, I included video.js to play the videos. Everything worked fine for Firefox and Chrome, but on my Android device (SSG3 with Android 4.0.4) the video won't start or loop.
<video id="model_video" autoplay loop preload="auto" data-setup="{}" width="90%" height="90%" poster="images/black.jpg">
did not start the video. But this was easily solved by calling video.start() in JS. But looping does not work with that. Even if the loop attribute seems to be supported, it causes problems. With attribute loop=false or even with the missing loop attribute, it is still set to true.
There are a couple of websites pointing out that there is the need of adding an eventlistener. But unfortunately, it didn't work.

The solution is to set the loop attribute to false using JS. Even with loop=false as an attribute of the video tag or with missing loop attribute, video.loop returns true. So to get the looping done, the following snippet did the trick:
var video = document.getElementById("model_video");
//this did the trick
video.loop = false;
video.addEventListener('ended', function() {
video.currentTime=0.1; video.play(); }, false);
video.play();
Cheers!

Related

getUserMedia frozen at first frame on Android Chrome

I have a working code on desktop browsers supporting getUserMedia Api, I can correctly see a video preview of my webcam in the div videoPreview. However, when running on Android device, this same code takes a picture with my front camera when I accept to share it in Chrome browser, then the preview keeps frozen on this first frame.
navigator.getMedia = (navigator.getUserMedia || navigator.webkitGetUserMedia || navigator.mozGetUserMedia);
navigator.getMedia(
// constraints
{video:true, audio:false},
// success callback
function (mediaStream) {
var video = document.getElementById('videoPreview');
video.src = window.URL.createObjectURL(mediaStream);
video.play();
},
//handle error
function (error) {
console.log(error);
}
)
For those encountering same problem : I fixed it by adding autoplay attribute to my <video> tag.
Was stuck with this for a while, I hope this will help someone else.
A colleague of mine and myself had the same issue today: working code didn't work anymore and the camera was frozen. Surprisingly (or not), a reboot fixed that problem.

First Generation Kindle Fire WebView <video> tag doesn't trigger the "error" callback on error

I'm embedding a <video> tag in a WebView for an Android application for use on the 1st generation Kindle Fire. The video doesn't play when I do video.play(), but my error callback doesn't get called either. I've tried setting it as an onerror attribute on the video itself, and also added the event to the element afterwards. According to the spec, it should work, but it doesn't seem to. Any ideas?
video.addEventListener('error', function(err) {
alert("error");
});

Android HTML5 Video in Fullscreen Mode

I'm trying to get my video stream to work on android in fullscreen mode. For iOS I use a native <video> tag, which works perfectly.
I can play the video on my android, but I don't have a fullscreen button. I also tried to create a own template for the android devices and simply set the width and height of the player to the window size (Fake Fullscreen). The problem I have here is, that when I rotate the device, the resize doesn't work correctly, so that i can scroll over the video.
Heres what I tried:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).on('resize orientationchange', function() {
$('#myPlayer').width( $(window).width() ).height( $(window).height() );
});
}
Can anyone help me to get this to work on Android?
I hope you can understand my question, my english isn't that good ...
HTML5 video full screen on mobile browsers (android)
seems the same question.
The events you need are: webkitbeginfullscreen (enter fullscreen) and webkitendfullscreen (exit fullscreen)
var player = document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0];
player.addEventListener('webkitbeginfullscreen', onVideoBeginsFullScreen, false);
player.addEventListener('webkitendfullscreen', onVideoEndsFullScreen, false);

html5 video tag to play full screen with Android

I'm creating a mobile site where I have a video I'd like to play when someone clicks on a link:
<div id="player"></div>
<?php echo $result_videos[$i]["camera_name"]; ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function DoNav(theUrl)
{
// only add the player if it doesn't yet exist
if($('#myfileplayer').length == 0) {
var mydiv = $("#player");
var myvideo = $("<video id='myfileplayer' src='"+ theUrl + "' width='320' height='240' controls></video>");
mydiv.append(myvideo);
} else {
$('#myfileplayer').attr("src",theUrl);
}
}
</script>
With the iPhone, this works great, I click on video and it goes full screen. Android works as well but it requires you to click the video to play then click on the full screen. Is it possible to get to the full screen like iPhone just when you hit play?
This should work, with plain Javascript:
var myVideo = document.getElementById('myVideoTag');
myVideo.play();
if (typeof(myVideo.webkitEnterFullscreen) != "undefined") {
// This is for Android Stock.
myVideo.webkitEnterFullscreen();
} else if (typeof(myVideo.webkitRequestFullscreen) != "undefined") {
// This is for Chrome.
myVideo.webkitRequestFullscreen();
} else if (typeof(myVideo.mozRequestFullScreen) != "undefined") {
myVideo.mozRequestFullScreen();
}
You have to trigger play() before the fullscreen instruction, otherwise in Android Browser it will just go fullscreen but it will not start playing.
Tested with the latest version of Android Browser, Chrome, Safari.
I've given up on this. My conclusion is that the html5 video tag on Android devices blows chunks. It works in some devices but not on others. And there is no common criteria like 3.x or 4.x, it just seems to be random. I hope this gets better sometime soon especially since flash support is not longer existent.
Oddly sticking with a simple href seems to be the most consistent. You lose some controls but way better than the video tag...at least so far.
Have you checked out mediaelement.js?
Try something along the lines of:
document.getElementById('myfileplayer').addEventListener('play', function (e) { this.mozRequestFullScreen ? this.mozRequestFullScreen() : this.webkitRequestFullScreen ? this.webkitRequestFullScreen() : null; }, false);
Either that or maybe something along the lines of:
document.getElementById('myfileplayer').addEventListener('play', function (e) { this.webkitEnterFullscreen(); }, false);
webkitEnterFullscreen is the fullscreen method of a VIDEO element that is currently working on iOS. I'm not sure about support on Android devices.
mozRequestFullScreen and webkitRequestFullScreen are implementations of Mozilla and Google's FullScreen API which is used to activate full screen mode on practically any DOM element.
Hopefully that gives you at least a starting point to work from...
Most vendors require user interaction to go full screen, which is why natalee's answer doesn't work. For Andriod, you can call webkitEnterFullScreen() inside your anchor's click handler since it's a valid user interaction:
myvideo[0].webkitEnterFullScreen();
myvideo[0].play();
or
$('#myfileplayer')[0].webkitEnterFullScreen();
$('#myfileplayer')[0].play();
Note how I'm stripping jQuery's wrapper with [0]. It doesn't work otherwise.

HTML5 <video> element on Android

According to:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html
Android 2.0 should support the HTML5 video element. I haven't been able to get this to work using a Motorola Droid, and haven't been able to successfully view a video on any of the HTML5 video example pages out there. Since there currently isn't support for QuickTime or Flash, this is the only other thing I can think of for embedding mp4 video in a web page. Has anyone had any luck with this?
I've just done some experimentation with this, and from what I can tell you need three things:
You must not use the type attribute when calling the video.
You must manually call video.play()
The video must be encoded to some quite strict parameters; using the iPhone setting on Handbrake with the 'Web Optimized' button checked usually does the trick.
Have a look at the demo on this page: http://broken-links.com/tests/video/
This works, AFAIK, in all video-enabled desktop browsers, iPhone and Android.
Here's the markup:
<video id="video" autobuffer height="240" width="360">
<source src="BigBuck.m4v">
<source src="BigBuck.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="BigBuck.theora.ogv" type="video/ogg">
</video>
And I have this in the JS:
var video = document.getElementById('video');
video.addEventListener('click',function(){
video.play();
},false);
I tested this on a Samsung Galaxy S and it works fine.
Roman's answer worked fine for me - or at least, it gave me what I was expecting. Opening the video in the phone's native application is exactly the same as what the iPhone does.
It's probably worth adjusting your viewpoint and expect video to be played fullscreen in its own application, and coding for that. It's frustrating that clicking the video isn't sufficient to get it playing in the same way as the iPhone does, but seeing as it only takes an onclick attribute to launch it, it's not the end of the world.
My advice, FWIW, is to use a poster image, and make it obvious that it will play the video. I'm working on a project at the moment that does precisely that, and the clients are happy with it - and also that they're getting the Android version of a web app for free, of course, because the contract was only for an iPhone web app.
Just for illustration, a working Android video tag is below. Nice and simple.
<video src="video/placeholder.m4v" poster="video/placeholder.jpg" onclick="this.play();"/>
Here I include how a friend of mine solved the problem of displaying videos in HTML in Nexus One:
I never was able to make the video play inline. Actually many people on the internet mention explicitly that inline video play in HTML is supported since Honeycomb, and we were fighting with Froyo and Gingerbread... Also for smaller phones I think that playing full screen is very natural - otherwise not so much is visible. So the goal was to make the video open in full screen. However, the proposed solutions in this thread did not work for us - clicking on the element triggered nothing. Furthermore the video controls were shown, but no poster was displayed so the user experience was even weirder. So what he did was the following:
Expose native code to the HTML to be callable via javascript:
JavaScriptInterface jsInterface = new JavaScriptInterface(this);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.addJavascriptInterface(jsInterface, "JSInterface");
The code itself, had a function that called native activity to play the video:
public class JavaScriptInterface {
private Activity activity;
public JavaScriptInterface(Activity activiy) {
this.activity = activiy;
}
public void startVideo(String videoAddress){
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(videoAddress), "video/3gpp"); // The Mime type can actually be determined from the file
activity.startActivity(intent);
}
}
Then in the HTML itself he kept on failing make the video tag work playing the video. Thus, finally he decided to overwrite the onclick event of the video, making it do the actual play. This almost worked for him - except for no poster was displayed. Here comes the most weird part - he kept on receiving ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7391): java.lang.RuntimeException: Null or empty value for header "Host" every time he set the poster attribute of the tag. Finally he found the issue, which was very weird - it turned out that he had kept the source subtag in the video tag, but never used it. And weird enough exactly this was causing the problem. Now see his definition of the video section:
<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls" poster='poster.gif' onclick="playVideo('file:///sdcard/test.3gp');" >
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Of course you need to also add the definition of the javascript function in the head of the page:
<script>
function playVideo(video){
window.JSInterface.startVideo(video);
}
</script>
I realize this is not purely HTML solution, but is the best we were able to do for Nexus One type of phone.
All credits for this solution go to Dimitar Zlatkov Dimitrov.
If you manually call video.play() it should work:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function init() {
enableVideoClicks();
}
function enableVideoClicks() {
var videos = document.getElementsByTagName('video') || [];
for (var i = 0; i < videos.length; i++) {
// TODO: use attachEvent in IE
videos[i].addEventListener('click', function(videoNode) {
return function() {
videoNode.play();
};
}(videos[i]));
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init()">
<video src="sample.mp4" width="400" height="300" controls></video>
...
</body>
</html>
pointing my android 2.2 browser to html5test.com, tells me that the video element is supported, but none of the listed video codecs... seems a little pointless to support the video element but no codecs??? unless there is something wrong with that test page.
however, i did find the same kind of situation with the audio element: the element is supported, but no audio formats. see here:
http://textopiablog.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/browser-support-for-html5-audio/
Nothing worked for me until I encoded the video properly. Try this guide for the correct handbrake settings:
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9694
Maybe you have to encode the video specifically for the device eg:
<video id="movie" width="320" height="240" autobuffer controls>
<source src="pr6.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
<source src="pr6.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
<source src="pr6.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="some droid video codec, some droid audio codec"'>
</video>
There are some examples of encoding configurations that worked on here:
https://supportforums.motorola.com
Try h.264 in an mp4 container. I've had much success with it on my Droid X. I've been using zencoder.com for format conversions.
This works for me:
<video id="video-example" width="256" height="177" poster="image.jpg">
<source src="video/video.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source>
<source src="video/video.ogg" type="video/ogg"></source>
This browser does not support HTML5
</video>
Only when the .mp4 is on top and the videofile is not to big.
It's supposed to work, but watch the resolution:
Android 2.0 and webkit
Canvas works right out of the box,
while Geolocation seems to not work at
all in the Emulator. Of course, I have
to send it mock locations to get it to
work, so I have no idea what this
would be like on an actual phone. I
can say the same thing with the video
tag. There are issues with it not
actually playing the video, BUT I
think it’s the fact that the video is
a higher resolution than what the
Emulator can handle. We’ll know more
once someone tries this on a Motorola
Droid or other next-gen Android device
This might not exactly answer your question, but we're using the 3GP or 3GP2 file format. Better even to use the rtsp protocol, but the Android browser will also recognize the 3GP file format.
You can use something like
self.location = URL_OF_YOUR_3GP_FILE
to trigger the video player. The file will be streamed and after playback ends, handling is returned to the browser.
For me this solves a lot of problems with current video tag implementation on android devices.
According to : https://stackoverflow.com/a/24403519/365229
This should work, with plain Javascript:
var myVideo = document.getElementById('myVideoTag');
myVideo.play();
if (typeof(myVideo.webkitEnterFullscreen) != "undefined") {
// This is for Android Stock.
myVideo.webkitEnterFullscreen();
} else if (typeof(myVideo.webkitRequestFullscreen) != "undefined") {
// This is for Chrome.
myVideo.webkitRequestFullscreen();
} else if (typeof(myVideo.mozRequestFullScreen) != "undefined") {
myVideo.mozRequestFullScreen();
}
You have to trigger play() before the fullscreen instruction,
otherwise in Android Browser it will just go fullscreen but it will
not start playing. Tested with the latest version of Android Browser,
Chrome, Safari.
I've tested it on Android 2.3.3 & 4.4 browser.
After much research, in many different devices, up to now, I've reached the simple conclusion that MP4 is much less supported than MOV format.
So, I'm using MOV format, which is supported by all Android and Apple devices, on all browsers.
I've detected weather the device is a mobile device or a desktop browser, and set the SRC accordingly:
if (IsMobile()) {
$('#vid').attr('src', '/uploads/' + name + '.mov');
}
else {
$('#vid').attr('src', '/uploads/' + name + '.webm');
}
function IsMobile() {
var isMobile = false; //initiate as false
if (/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|ipad|iris|kindle|Android|Silk|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows (ce|phone)|xda|xiino/i.test(navigator.userAgent)
|| /1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s )|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( |\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( |\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| |o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v )|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v )|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| )|webc|whit|wi(g |nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i.test(navigator.userAgent.substr(0, 4))) isMobile = true;
return isMobile;
}
I tried using the .mp4 format to play a video on Android devices but that did not go well. So after some trial and error, I converted the video into the .webm format and following code with no extra javascript or JQuery:
<video id="video" class="video" muted loop autoplay>
<source src="../media/some_video.webm" type="video/webm">
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
</video>
It worked on an older Android device (at least a few years old as of 2020).
HTML5 is supported on both Google (android) phones such as Galaxy S, and iPhone. iPhone however doesn't support Flash, which Google phones do support.

Categories

Resources