Can't get a self-playing video by any method. Anyone used video successfully?

[Kal]

Hi, I am very frustrated with trying to get a video to play. I am building a "kiosk" type app, where I need I need a video to play in a loop continuously in half the screen, while something else goes on in the other half. Here are all the things I have tried:

1. Used the Video component, and pointed to a URL where I have an MP4 hosted. Set Auto Play, and Loop to "true".

   Result: This method works fine in the test browser. However, when loaded via APK to the android tablet, no video shows up. That same MP4 plays fine on the same tablet when played with the built-in Video player, and on the native Chrome browser, so I know it is not a codec issue.

2. Used the YouTube component, put in a You Tube id, and set to Auto Play and Loop

   Result: Video plays in the device, but, it will not auto play (you have to click to start) and it will loop. This comes closest, except for the need to "click to play" initially.

3. Used the Vimeo component, put in a video ID, set Auto Play and Loop

   Result: Requires click to play, and switches to full-screen mode on clicking. Hitting the back button gets it to play inside the vimeo frame in the app, but inconsistently. Looping just does not happen.

   It would seem like in 2014, the way to play a video in an app would have been solved, so I must be missing something. Anyone been successful with video?

[Alena Prykhodko]

Hello Kal,

What Android version do you have?
We'll need some time to test on device, we'll get back once have updates.

[Kal]

Android 4.1

[Kal]

One question, while you are doing the testing... is the Video player component built into Appery the same as this: https://github.com/macdonst/VideoPlayer ? If not, can you tell me which Video Player is used, so I can do my own research on it?

Thanks,
-Kal.

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello!

It is just HTML5 video component.

[Evgene Karachevtsev]

Hello Kal,

Unfortunately this seems to be the bug, we reported it.