I have a site with full screen background video using BigVideo.js. (http://dfcb.github.io/BigVideo.js/) On mobile devices, android is working great. However, on an apple device the video loads with a 'Play' button that you need to click which loads the video in a modal window over top of the site. Any ideas on how to make this behave like desktop/android devices where the video seamlessly plays in the background? Could there be an Apple app-driven event detecting video and forcing play in a modal?
Example HTML:
<div class="screen" data-video="vid/1-Statue.mp4">
Many mobile devices do not support video autoplay - the idea is to avoid users running up large mobile data bills. Last time I looked all the smaller iOS devices, i.e. iPhones did not.
There is a popular javascript library to detect browser features which includes a test for autoplay which may be useful for you:
https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/blob/master/feature-detects/video/autoplay.js
Similarly, inline video is not supported on all Mobile devices - it is evolving so more devices do now but it is probably not a good idea to rely on it. Again, there is at least one open source library trying to address this on iPhone (inline video works on iPads last time I checked, as far as I recall):
https://github.com/newshorts/InlineVideo
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There are a million resources out there explaining that iOS browsers don't support the fullscreen web API.
But I know there is a way to do landscape fullscreen on iOS. See these examples:
https://poki.com/en/g/stick-merge
https://www.google.com/doodles/doodle-champion-island-games-begin
When you go to those pages, they tell you to rotate your phone to landscape, and once you do - the entire phone UI is gone. True fullscreen.
I just can't figure out what's the API for doing that.
I just figured it out. Boy do I feel silly.
There is no API.
Just browse to any page on Safari iOS, rotate your phone to landscape, and bam, you're in fullscreen mode.
I'm developing a web app whose main purpose is streaming dancing videos and I'm facing this problem just in chrome mobile, it works flawlessly in firefox mobile, and in every other desktop browser.
The thing is I need to be able to flip an html5 video element and it works... well, it works until I go fullscreen, then it stays for a few seconds and reverts to the original video (not flipped).
I'm using the css "transform: scaleY(-1)" property.
I've tried setting this property to the video tag, to an upper div, within the video tag and the div which requests fullscreen. And to the div requesting the full screen with no success. If I set scale(); to any positive number between 0 and 1, it seems to do the trick but it doesn't work with negative numbers.
I'm aware of the UA css :not(:root):-webkit-full-screen {transform: none !important}, but it doesn't seem to be the problem. I would rather say it's more related to the way chrome handles video in fullscreen mode.
Any help would be appreciated. If I can't make it work, I'll have to provide another stream with the mirrored version of each video.
Thanks in advance, If you need any examples don't hesitate on asking.
Using a fixed css3 background images works fine for the desktop (Chrome, Firefox, IE/Edge no issues), it stays always at the screen with full-height and width bg.
Unfortunately it does not work on mobile devices. Tablets and phones with Android are unable to fix the image in the background.
Is there a way to check the device height/width to load different media or is it possible to simply zoom or scale the image automatically? Are there maybe any JS kits to accomplish this.
Moreover I plan to embed a background video (webm), does this work on mobile devices? May I ask to check if there is way, the video background loads only with WiFi connection. Otherwise it shall be a static image.
I have an animation made in Adobe Edge, featuring an animated body with an overlay of a face, pulled via an URL parameter.
It works fine on web. However, on IOS a video can only be played full screen - and then the image overlay obviously doesn't show.
Does anyone know a solution of how I could make this work on IOS? Either some way to convert the video+overlay to a merged video, svg animation or something else? Or just play the video without fullscreen - but I don't think this is possible.
On iOS mobile devices videos played in Safari go full screen with no other elements available. There is no way to stop this behaviour in Safari. Videos can be made to play inline within a native app, but not Safari unfortunately.
on iOS tablet devices, videos can be played inline within Safari.
However,you mentioned that you've created the animation in Adobe Edge Animate? I'd be tempted to publish your animation as a web animation and use that where your video would be.
I'm trying to make new web-site that background has a video.
I found a JS library: tubular
This plugin working as expected in my desktop browser. (Checked on : Chrome,Safari,Firefox)
But, This NOT working in mobile browsers.
I tried in (Nexus 5, HTC M8).
Both devices are not responding for video background.
Anyone there who knows the solution for this issue or some alternative library that I can use?
I suspect this is a problem with the video background not autoplaying on a mobile browser. This is by design though, it is a mechanism that prevents autoplaying videos from using up bandwidth unnecessarily.