get rid of video button on ios uiwebview

Question

Is there some way to get rid of the giant uiwebview video play button whenever it detects a video. I just want to show a screen of a video without the play button in the way.

Thanks,

Answer 1

If you use the HTML5 video tag then appearance of controls is specified as an attibute i.e.

no controls

<video  src="sample_mpeg4.mp4"></video>

all controls

<video  src="sample_mpeg4.mp4" controls></video> 

just one control

<video  src="sample_mpeg4.mp4" controls="Volume"></video> 

P.S. If you want the video to play inline within the UIWebView there are things you need to do within the HTML itself and also within the UIWebView implementation, I can add this info if required.