html5-video
Image placeholder fallback for HTML5 Video
After a lot of searching, I found the solution that worked for me back to IE8. Have not tested in IE7. How can I display an image if browser does not support HTML5’s <video> tag The above post, shows a method that seems to work for me. Here is the output based on my above … Read more
iPad Safari mobile seems to ignore z-indexing position for html5 video elements
The issue only occurs if the video element was dynamically created. If the element was just in the page as it loaded, z-index works fine. You can fix z-index on dynamically created videos by giving the video element -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d. Yep, it’s as bad as haslayout on IE!
Add text above HTML5 Video
Surely you are looking for more than this: <div class=”container”> <video id=”video” width=”770″ height=”882″ onclick=”play();”> <source src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10422105/video/Motion.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″ /> </video> <div class=”overlay”> <p>Content above your video</p> <form> <p>Content Below Your Video</p> <label for=”input”>Form Input Label</label> <input id=”input” name=”input” value=”” /> <button type=”submit”>Submit</button> </form> </div> </div> If you want to put the content on top of … Read more
How to take a snapshot of HTML5-JavaScript-based video player?
To copy an video frame to an image file involves properly loading the video, copying the image to a canvas and exporting it to a file. This is totally possible, but there are a few places where you can run into trouble, so let’s take it one step at a time. 1) Loading the video … Read more
HTML5 video “autoplay” not automatically starting in Chrome
You need to add playsinline autoplay muted loop because Chrome does not allow a video to autostart if it is not muted. Also, right now I don’t know why it is not working in all Android devices. I’m trying to look if it’s version specific, if I find something I’ll let you know. Chrome issue: … Read more
How to use VLC live streams with HTML5 video?
I struggled with this for a while and I was able to verify that Ogg/Theora work just fine in Firefox 7, Nightly 10 and Opera Next. Everything is now also working on Google Chrome. The issue I had with Chrome was that the latest version of Chrome in XP no longer needs the ‘–enable-webgl’ instruction … Read more
Why does setting currentTime of HTML5 video element reset time in Chrome?
This is caused in many cases by the server not replying with an Accept-Ranges header. For an obscure, only-Google-developer-relevant reason (the FF folks don’t seem to be so offended by a server replying without an Accept-Ranges header), they refuse to implement seeking when such a header is not provided. You can add one very easily … Read more
can’t seek html5 video or audio in chrome
I found the reason why it’s not working on this question: HTML5 video will not loop Our server doesn’t understand partial content right now. As a result chrome is sending requests for content that doesn’t get answered which in turn makes our video’s and audio unseekable (and unloopable).
HTML5 Video Autoplay not working correctly
Chrome does not allow autoplay if the video is not muted. Try using this: <video width=”440px” loop=”true” autoplay=”autoplay” controls muted> <source src=”http://www.tuscorlloyds.com/CorporateVideo.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″ /> <source src=”http://www.tuscorlloyds.com/CorporateVideo.ogv” type=”video/ogv” /> <source src=”http://www.tuscorlloyds.com/CorporateVideo.webm” type=”video/webm” /> </video>