Hi Android developers, I'm trying to get the HTML5 <video> tag working on Android 2.1, but I'm a bit confused about its current level of support. The Android 2.0 highlights<http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html> say that Android 2.0 has "<video> tag support in fullscreen mode.". I was able to get the video to work in very limited conditions, where the Android browser detects a video element on a page, and allows you to start playing it in full screen only. That seems to be the only level of support for the HTML5 video tag so far, which lacks the cool features. I tried various video players that support the video tag for various platforms, but they all don't work with the Android browser, because it looks like the browser just launches the video independently of the browser, with no communication between the browser and the player, such that you can't seek or retrieve the current time from the browser properly. html5video.org has a page where it puts links to various players supporting the video tag:
http://www.html5video.org/demos/ Otherwise here is another very good player supporting the video tag that can be used for testing purposes: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/test.html While Chrome appears to have very good HTML5 support, the Android browser seems to be quite behind. Is improved HTML5 video tag support planned for the next release of Android? Is anybody currently working on improving it? Thanks, - Marc-Andre Moreau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
