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Does html5 video work on android nexus one with android version 2.1?

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No, the Android Browser doesn't support HTML5 at the current time.

YaW 2010-04-06 22:56:38

Why did they write "video tag support in fullscreen mode" here: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html then?

dar 2010-04-07 02:46:46

dar 2010-04-07 18:06:16

@dar That statement is from March 2009. `<video>` is supported now, in a limited way.

Roman Nurik 2010-04-23 07:50:32

Roman, can you provide a working example page?

dar 2010-04-23 11:08:41

Answer 2

+1 A:

Update: with Android 2.1 I can get the video to play but not in the page by adding an onclick="this.play(); to the video tag like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head><title>html5 test</title></head><body>
<video id="movie" width="480" height="370" poster="http://example.com/still.jpg" controls onclick="this.play();">
<source src="http://example.com/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support html5 video.
</video>
</body></html>

However, this does not play in the browser, it launches the media player to play the video in its own window.

dar 2010-06-23 15:47:02

Why the downvote?

dar 2010-06-24 12:56:40

I agree - it should work without the javascript, and I sure wish they had documented it somewhere. All I could find was a post on a mailing list from a year ago hinting it works in a limited fashion but without any information on how to get it to work. Oh well, hopefully this answer helps someone get going faster than it took me to figure it out.

dar 2010-06-24 13:19:49

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