I have a problem in HTML5 I'm trying to show a video on the Android Emulator Browser
I'm using the following Code
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<body>
<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls">
<source src="TJ.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</body>
</html>
It's not working
I tried to run the same code on Chrome but still not working
Any Ideas ??
Remove the type attribute from the <source> element and implement the play via the JavaScript API.
var video = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];
video.addEventListener('click',function(){ video.play(); },false);
A quirk of Android.
There's some useful stuff here: Making HTML5 Video Work on Android Phones.
I would suggest adding a codec property to the source tag.
More information on possible values here :
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/video.html
As per the current updates chrome is not supporting the H.264 and its subset codecs. If your mp4 file has the H.264 codec then chrome wont play that file in video. This is my personal experience.
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I'm trying to play a video taken with an Android phone. I want it to play in Chrome on a desktop or laptop. When I run the code, I get the video controls. When I play the video, I can hear the sound, but the video part is just empty background. I can get other videos to play just fine, but not the video from my phone. In the code below, the duration reports correctly (1.8 sec), but the height and width are reported as zero. (The test video from Big Buck Bunny plays just fine.)
What am I missing? (Yes, not a professional programmer, just a HS physics teacher...)
<html>
<body>
<video width="400" controls id="theVideo">
<source src="https://noragulfa.com/random/movie3.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_30fps_normal.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</body>
<script>
document.getElementById("theVideo").addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function(e) {
console.log(this.videoWidth, this.videoHeight, this.duration);
});
</script>
</html>
The video (movie3.mp4) contains a HEVC/H.265 (1920x1080#30fps) video stream.
Most browsers currently do not support HEVC/H.265. At the time of writing, only Safari does have support. Edge can also play HEVC/H.265 if the device has hardware decoding.
Please consider using AVC/H.264, VP8 or VP9 instead. For future reference, AV1 would also make a great alternative but support is currently not that great yet.
Your code is perfectly fine and working, The problem is with the video source that you are using, as you can see in the below code, I just replace your video URL with another URL and it working fine. the best solution would be to change your video source.
<html>
<body>
<video width="400" controls id="theVideo">
<source src="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</body>
<script>
document.getElementById("theVideo").addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function(e) {
console.log(this.videoWidth, this.videoHeight, this.duration);
});
</script>
</html>
You can you any free sites to host your video if you want, and use that URL to your code or maybe try to find another Url of the same video online.
I would just like to have a confirmation or a good discussion on the reason why Video tag is very much useless for Phonegap Applications on Android 4.0 and above and Lolipop.
I am using Cordova 5.0 or better to say Phonegap 4.0 and I integrated both Video JS and a normal video tag. I have included the Video JS library, it's required CSS and fonts.
My Code looks some what like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/video-js.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="libs/videojs/video.js"></script>
And I have added 2 VideoJS initialised tags as well as 2 normal tags with 1 online source and 1 locally embedded source:
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
local
<video id="example_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls preload="none"
poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png"
data-setup="{}">
<source src="libs/mov_bbb.mp4" type='video/mp4' />
<p class="vjs-no-js">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video</p>
</video>
net
<video controls src="http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
local
<video controls src="libs/mov_bbb.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
But the problem is none of the 4 videos play. They appear to be completely buggy.
Below is the screenshot on Lolipop:
This is a real pinning issue as I do not understand when the webkits of phonegap and normal android browser are same then why such issue is arising. It basically makes the video tag feature of HTML5 useless and hence principle of phonegap of having the same business logic across.
Is there any solution available to this? Or is it a known cordova issue.
Thanks,
Ankit Tanna
I am developing an Android App. I want to play video using HTML5 <video> tag. The tag works fine on browsers but the video doesn't play on emulator. Here is my code:
<video id="player" type="text/html" width="350" height="350">
<source src="media/v2.mp4"></source>
</video>
I also tried using <iframe> as follows
<iframe src="media/v2.mp4" width="400px" height="400px"></iframe>
But both do not work. Please help me fix this. I am using Cordova 2.6.0.
I am getting issue in while playing video in "Android Phone's chrome Browser".
In that I am putting HTML5 video tag and providing m3u8 file's link as a source of video tag.
But it does not play in "Android's chrome browser".
But if I provide same m3u8 file's link to browser than it plays the video in Android's video player.
So what should be done to play video in HTML5 video tag?
Note: I have checked this with Android 4.0.3 and 4.1
Thanking in Advance,
Sagar Joshi
I think it depends on the encoding, by looking at the server logs the playlists are requested, but since no webm content is found nothing is played.
That's really unfortunate because the stock browser used to play h264 videos just fine.
the hls link will not work directly on android chrome you need a hls javascript library to get it to work, have a look at this code
<video id="my-video" style="width:640px height:480px;" controls>
<source src="{put your source link here}">
</video>
</div>
<script src="http://hlsbook.net/wp-content/examples/hls.min.js"></script>
<script>
if ( Hls.isSupported() ) {
var video = document.getElementById('my-video');
var hls = new Hls();
hls.loadSource('{put your source link here}');
hls.attachMedia(video);
hls.on(Hls.Events.MANIFEST_PARSED, function() {
video.play();
});
}
</script>
and remember the source link will not work on android platform, it works for ios-safari platform only as ios-safari platform don't require hls javascript, since Safari mobile does not support media source extensions and thus will not work with hls.js.
So for android you need to add the video link in the script tag in hls.loadSource and it will work on android chrome.
I ended up using video.js's VHS to solve this https://github.com/videojs/http-streaming.
In my case, I was using fragmented MP4s which isn't supported by Android's native HLS support. To workaround this, you need to force VHS to override native support:
<video id="player" class="video-js" width="360" height="640" controls playsinline muted preload="auto" poster="https://example.com/poster.jpg">
<source src="https://example.com/stream.m3u8" type="application/x-mpegURL">
</video>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/video.js/dist/video.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/#videojs/http-streaming/dist/videojs-http-streaming.min.js"></script>
<script>
const player = videojs('player');
player.play({
overrideNative: true // <-- this fixes Android Chrome
});
</script>
I was using hls.js before but had several issues with fragments MP4s. Definitely recommend video.js/VHS.
I'm creating a web page using HTML5 in order to have a mp4 video on it, I already accomplished this but, I trying to add some functionalities like autoplay, autobuffer and loop using this code
<video id="video" width="320" height="240" src="http://.../TCLAST.mp4" controls autobuffer autoplay loop>
But nothing so far, one more thing I want to display this page on the Motorola XOOM. I have used different browsers like dolphin, skyfire, firefox and the default browser.
You can try videojs ( http://videojs.com/ ) and play the video on DOMReady. Using the video JS API. This will also give you the benefit of being iDevice compatable.
The XOOM in its current form is very picky about video. Have you verified that the video you want to play will play in the native player?
For more information, look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026570&highlight=video
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021461&highlight=video
Here the Demo
http://jsfiddle.net/dineshk/fvnr0zex/2/
This Will work when the video tag append using Javascript.
Here the Javascript code
var newHtml = '<video width="100%" height="30%" autoplay controls id="myVideos" src="https://dev.ocutagsnap.com:8080/PearsonVideos/videos/tumb10.mp4" ></video>';
$("#newone").append(newHtml);