Embeded Video in html content does not play on WebView

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I am working on app which contain inline image and embeded video in HTML content. video displayed but clicking on play button video wont play. I have used following code of loading html content on webview.

WebSettings mainViewsettings = witContentWebView.getSettings();
mainViewsettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mainViewsettings.setAllowFileAccess(true);
mainViewsettings.setLayoutAlgorithm(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.NARROW_COLUMNS);

mainViewsettings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
mainViewsettings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
mainViewsettings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);

witContentWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() 
{

});

witContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL("", witsContentStr,"text/html", "UTF-8", "");

I have also set android:hardwareAccelerated="true" in manifest file, but I did not get any success. Could you guys help me solveout in this.

yes. it from youtube. I have also use this, but it does not work. — Vinayak Mishra, Sep 07 '15 at 11:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '15 at 11:19

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Maybe problem in is codec? Just open a browser? You use Chromium Web View or old Web View? (Android version)

answered Sep 07 '15 at 11:19

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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Answer shamelessly copied from https://stackoverflow.com/a/3520920/1602333.

I am not sure if this is what you need. Anyway I hope the following be useful. You can use the iframe method that youtube provides to play its videos. If the browser supports html5 will show the video with it, otherwise with flash.

You can use the following code as an example <iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bIPcobKMB94" frameborder="0">

in the above example the video id is bIPcobKMB94. You can change this id and show your video.

You can access a live example of it here

More infromation for youtube iframe

YouTube HTML5 Video Player

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Sep 07 '15 at 11:28

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Its only play audio. video is not visible. – Vinayak Mishra Sep 07 '15 at 11:38
which android version? – MohK Sep 07 '15 at 11:45
I have checked this in JellyBean 4.1.2, Kitkat 4.4 and lollipop 5.0 – Vinayak Mishra Sep 07 '15 at 11:50
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– Vinayak Mishra Sep 07 '15 at 11:53
Above I have posted HTML content what i am getting from server to show on Webview. – Vinayak Mishra Sep 07 '15 at 11:55
surprisingly , in my 4.1 and 5.0 device , it's working. I have taken iframe directly in body tag without any div. – MohK Sep 07 '15 at 12:01
I have checked this by just remove the div tag it also does not work for me. – Vinayak Mishra Sep 07 '15 at 12:11
– MohK Sep 07 '15 at 12:26
try my code , it works for me in 5.0 and even my younger brother also likes chhota bheem very much :D – MohK Sep 07 '15 at 12:27
It also did not work on any of android version device I have. rather it play on default browser of phone. – Vinayak Mishra Sep 07 '15 at 12:40

Embeded Video in html content does not play on WebView

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