I'm developing a mobile video platform and I have playing in mobile safari and some Android browsers. The problem I'm having is that my solutions thus far (have tried regular HTML 5 video as well as VideoJS) have only worked on about 50% of the Android browsers I've tested.
I have added the three web formats to my video tag (ogv, webm and mp4) as well as provided a fallback flash object but it seems that a lot of the Android mobile browsers still refuse to play any video.
Has anyone had a similar experience that could propose a solution?
Thanks,
gearoid.
Strange resolution with this one. I need to add the video sources in the appropriate order to get multi-device compatability. The sources need to be added to the video tag in the following order:
MP4
WebM
OGV
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I have opened many sites that use HTML5 video in the emulator ( android 2.3.3 and android 5 ) but it doesn't work: I can hear the audio but the video doesn't appear. On my smartphone ( samsung s5 with android 5 ) it works.
So why html5 video tag doesn't work well in the emulator ?
I would recommend checking if the encoding format is compatible with the emulator version and the android requirements. That can be done here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
Also remember to check beneath the initial grid for the encoding requirements.
To read more about HTML5 videos in android:
http://www.broken-links.com/2010/07/08/making-html5-video-work-on-android-phones/
Hope this helps you understand the problem better. Try and look around on his site for more of his blogs posts on the different subjects. He seems pretty competent.
I have an app that was developed for iOS and Android (both are native). Both apps use the same api to download content such as images, documents, and videos. The video format is in mp4. Of course the videos play fine in iOS but some Android tablets have issues playing the videos reliably. Sometimes they play, sometimes (and usually) they don't.
Obviously this is a codec issue. I've suggested we have the user upload two videos, one for android and one for ios, but it doesn't seem to be an option at this point.
Is there a bitrate/fps setting that can be used to make video across both platforms more reliable?
Is it possible to play a remote video which is in server using html5 in android.
I have tried playing the local video and it works fine.
Android tag support is very flanky in currently deployed phones. You can search about various problems of it here at stackoverflow.com.
I'd suggest using link to a video file on the remote server which is then opened in a standalone media player. This guarantees that the video will work on all the devices.
works fine in 2.3+ (tested personally on 2.3, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2)
try absolute paths instead of relative paths, the type attribute should only read "video/mp4" or "video/webm" - nothing more!
check http://caniuse.com/webm and http://caniuse.com/mpeg4 for supported codecs. Ogg-Video is not supported so far.
I'm in the stage of planning a new application for both iOS and Android platforms (tablet and phone), which will heavily feature streaming video playback.
However, the documentation is not entirely clear about capabilities of these platforms when it comes to video playback. So my questions are:
1.) Can Android and iOS playback HTML5 video from a webpage/webview?
2.) Can HTML5 videos be shown as part of a webpage (non-fullscreen) with an overlay?
3.) Can Android and iOS play videos natively in non-fullscreen mode?
4.) Can I do text/graphcs overlay over a played video if it's a part of native app?
The answers on these questions (if possible, with supported OS versions) would be much appreciated, I can't seem to find conclusive resouces as part of the platform documentation.
Ok let me try to answer as clear as possible since I just had experience with apps for streaming in ios and android.
1.) Can Android and iOS playback HTML5 video from a webpage/webview?
Yes The both can with the <Video> tag
2.) Can HTML5 videos be shown as part of a webpage (non-fullscreen) with an overlay?
This depends more on the device than on the OS. iPad can do it without full-screen but iPhone does apply full-screen, Android Tablets Can some Andorid phones Can't.
Specifically on iOS and iPhones the best way to go would be to create a MPMoviePlayerController (not to be confused with MPMoviewPlayerViewController) and you can set the layout in your viewController and restrict the size of the video so you can see the layout. (This allso works of course in iPad so that could be your best approach for both)
3.) Can Android and iOS play videos natively in non-fullscreen mode?
Yes they can, as explained above would be better if instead of using a WebView you use VideoPlayer's in View Controllers
4.) Can I do text/graphcs overlay over a played video if it's a part of native app?
You can using the above approach since your video will be on your viewcontroller where you manage the size and position of the player in your view, when doing it on a webviewthe device automatically loads the player so you are unable to manage it.
You should play safe and go for min OS requirements iOS 4.0 and Android OS 2.1 because of the improvements both versions made on native video playback
I don't think there can be a definitive answer without testing and even then the answers are likely to change (rapidly, I hope). I looked at the reference video here: http://broken-links.com/tests/video/ which is encoded in three different forms, ensuring it can play correctly in Firefox, which supports ogg, Chrome, which supports webm, and whatever supports m4v.
<video id="video" autobuffer height="240" poster="../images/bbb_poster-360x240.jpg" width="360">
<source src="../media/BigBuck.m4v">
<source src="../media/BigBuck.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="../media/BigBuck.theora.ogv" type="video/ogg">
</video>
I tested this on an iPad 2 with the latest updates, a Samsung Galaxy Tab with Android 3.1, and a Nexus One with Android 2.3 as well as Firefox 5 and Chrome 12 on OS X 10.6.8. Both Firefox and Chrome played perfectly.
Ipad 2: Played correctly in the browser (non-fullscreen). The only anomaly: time was shown as "1' of NaN'"
Android 3.1: Played correctly in the browser (non-fullscreen.)
Android 2.3: Went to full-screen when I pressed "play." After playing, went back to in-browser, but showed time as "1' of 6000'" Also, it hung for a while before playing, perhaps because of the connection speed, but it didn't feel completely stable.
I hope this is helpful.
can anybody tell me the best HTML5 embedding code and video-codec (+file format) for streaming video-content over the internet (HTTP-Streaming)??
The videos should be watched without problems on iOS (iPhone + iPad) and Android phones!
thanks!
Mike
http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html
that page goes into detail about using html5 video and appropriate codecs for different browsers, including iOS and android.
Until DASH becomes widely supported, streaming video into HTML5 on mobile devices is extremely limited.
The only option at this moment is to use Apple's HLS, which works wonderfully on iPhone/iPad/iPod, but doesn't work in Android. https://developer.apple.com/streaming/
Google's WebM is being worked on, and there's some stuff here: https://sites.google.com/a/webmproject.org/wiki/adaptive-streaming/instructions-to-playback-a-webm-dash-presentation , but I haven't tried it on Android.