html5-video

HTML5 offline video caching in mobile safari

Sorry if this gets posted twice, but Safari crashed while posting the first version, and I don't see it in my profile. Anyway I can't seem to get Safari on the iPhone or iPad to offline cache videos. Everything else gets cached just fine when I go offline. The video file is obviously in the manifest, but I just get the broken arrow. ...

Is there a way to use DRM on HTML5 video?

Since Flash is losing ground I would like to know if there are ways to protect html5 videos with DRM (H264, .ogg and WebM). Update Found out that safari supports HTML5 drm hinting with .mov files. Which stops users from directly saving the files. Still leaves all other browsers. http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/video/ ...

Accessing HTML 5 Video Progress Event with jQuery

Hello All, The below is for an HTML5 video player event. My partner and I have been stumped for a very large portion of the day on this issue and hope someone can lend some insight on the issue. We have been able to access the progress event with plain js as seen below but when trying to access this with jQuery we get undefined in con...

Embedded Vimeo Video Callbacks

This post is kind of a follow up to a post I made earlier in regards to HTML5 video callbacks. In that thread, I was given a great piece of code that would allow for the browser to be informed of when the video stops playing and then fire off an action (with jQuery). This is the code I'm currently using: $('video.normal').bind('ended', ...

Which browsers on pc have supported html5 so far?

I know that most browsers already support HTML5 on handphones, but what's the status with PC browsers, especially for HTML5 <video>? What are good websites and resources for keeping up with how well different browsers support HTML5? ...

Flash video player VS HTML 5 Video.....

I need to add a video player to play a video on a webpage. usually i use Flash player with the help of swfobject library. which works if flash player and javascript both are enabled. I'm currently using XHTML 1.0 strict doctype. My question is can i just change my doctype to HTML 5 doctype and add Video player using HTML 5 video. for ...

Html 5 video tag and codecs problem

I have a mkv file. It's video codec is avc and audio codec is ac3. How can i put it into a html5 video tag? I use the <source src="01.mkv" type="video/x-matroska" codecs="a_ac3, avc"> but in safari 5 or chorome4 it doesn't works. ...

html5media library doesn't work on FF 3.6.3

Hi. Am I the only one experiencing this issue? I'm using the html5media library and the test page they provide no longer plays in Firefox 3.6.3, though it plays on the latest Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE. On FF 3.6.3, it shows the video and the audio with large X through them. I'm using this library on my site and noticed the issue as w...

How to create a video overlay for the iPad?

I would like to know if it is possible to create something like "Picture in Picture" on an iPad - native application or web-based content, it doesn't matter. I started from mobile safari, trying to see if I can play two videos at the same time, but when I touch on one video, the other stops. I wonder if it could be possible to load a vid...

How do I disable auto- poster image generation on the video tag?

I'm using the 'poster' attribute on a video tag and the way it seems to work at least in webkit browsers is that it loads the poster image and then once enough of the video has loaded, it replaces that poster with an auto-generated poster from the video file itself. However, my poster images don't match the auto-generated posters which ...

Does html5 video support flv out of the box on mobile phones(symbian,android,iphone)?

The purpose is to support playing flv without requiring client side script like actionscript. Anyone knows? ...

how to add a youtube video to / with jMediaelement

Does anybody uses jMediaelement (http://protofunc.com/jme/index.html) for HTML5 videos? I am wondering how to display a youtube video. I see there's a demo on the homepage of jMediaelement, but the source code is not provided (clever!). Any idea how to? Thanks ...

MP4 plays when accessed directly, but not when read through PHP, on iOS

I use a PHP script to validate video requests before serving them. This script works as expected on the desktop, with Safari and Chrome. But on iOS, I get a broken play button. I'm sure the video is properly encoded for iPhone/iPad, because when I access it directly, it works as expected. The relevant PHP code: $file_name = 'test-vi...

JW Player on iPad causes issues

Hi. I'm trying to use the JW HTML5 player in an AnythingSlider. It works fine on all the browsers but not on iPad; Page is here: http://bit.ly/d3ouub Here's what's going on: - If you start a video in any of the AnythingSlider panels (Panel 1 and Panel 5 contain video), the video will overflow the AnythingSlider and appear either on the...

Is DRM supported in HTML5 audio/video?

Does HTML5 audio/video support OMA DRM or any third party DRM? ...

Backward compatibility in HTML5 in mobile?

Does HTML5 support backward compatibility in mobile? If the browser is not support HTML5 while run a html5 page in mobile browser, whether it will throw error when audio/video is not support or we able to customize the error/alternate code. Also design wise it supports rest of tags? Thanks in advance, Sri ...

DRM protection for Video

hi is there any way to achieve DRM/third party protection for video tag in html5 through Javascript? sri ...

Content scroller that works with iPad + HTML5 video?

Hi. I'm looking for a content scroller ("carousel" component) and HTML5 video library that work well across browsers but most importantly handles HTML5 video and the iPad well. I've tried the AnythingScroller + JW HTML5 Player and they simply don't work on Safari 5 and iPad -- the HTML5 video goes outside of the scroller component, even ...

Javascript, Smartphone detection for videos?

If there's a better way I am all for it. But I wanna detect a smartphone user on my site. Whether they be a webOS, Android, or iPhone OS phone. I have a flash video on my site, but when I detect a smartphone users I want it to be a HTML5 video on the site instead. ...

HTML5 Video - Chrome - Error settings currentTime

When I try to set the currentTime of the HTML5 Video element in Chrome 5.0.375.86 like: video.currentTime = 1.0; I am getting the following javascript exception: Uncaught Error: INDEX_SIZE_ERR: DOM Exception 1 It works fine in Safari. Has anybody experienced this?? ...