Play a local video from iPad in an HTML 5 webpage

Question

Hi,

Does anyone know if you can use the HTML5 video tag to play a video from the iPad library?

Something like:

<source src="/local/path/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />

Thanks for your time

Answer 1

As far as I know, web pages don’t have access the iOS devices’ filesystems (hence the lack of support for <input type="file"> on iOS).

The user doesn’t have direct access to the filesystem, so it would be odd if web pages did.