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Pretty basic question.

I am using PhoneGap/Cordova (http://www.phonegap.com) to build an app for Amazon FireTV OS, which is built on Android. I am using HTML, Javascript, CSS and everything is working fine. However, when I try to use the < video > tag to pull in an .MP4 video, all I am getting is a gray background and film strip logo (picture: https://i.stack.imgur.com/XCHHB.jpg). What does this mean? The documentation says is supported and I am 100% positive of the path and any other silly pitfalls. Do I need a cordova plugin of some sort? Perhaps the manifest file needs to be tweaked? Thank you for your assistance.

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As you didn't provide the code, I will try to form how I have done it before:

  1. Make sure your code does not have video.load(); for android

  2. You must call video.play();

    • example:

    video.addEventListener('click',function(){ video.play(); },false);

  3. If you trigger play please call video.pause(); before you call video.play();

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  • Thank you for the suggestion. I have attached my code. Where would I place the code you mentioned? As you can see, I simply have one line which is calling the – Gene Ellis May 29 '14 at 22:03
  • Since your video can't play, so i wrote this example [jsFiddle](http://jsfiddle.net/8m6Ta/), also you can check this out: [w3school](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp), hope this can help. – user800813 Jun 18 '14 at 04:05