iPad html5 video with NO controls?

Question

This has been killing me all day, but I am not sure how to get a html5 video player working without the native controls.

I want no controls what-so-ever but if I don\'t

Answer 1

iOS does not support the autoplay attribute of the video tag. It would also appear that you cannot use jQuery to bind to a click event from the video element (see fiddle).

A workaround is to position an invisible div over the video element and bind the click which plays the video to that (see fiddle):

HTML:

<div id="video-overlay"></div>
<video id="video" width="400" height="300">
      <source id='mp4'
        src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4"
        type='video/mp4'>
      <source id='webm'
        src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.webm"
        type='video/webm'>
      <source id='ogv'
        src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.ogv"
        type='video/ogg'>
</video>

CSS:

#video { border: 1px solid black; }
#video-overlay { position: absolute; width: 400px; height: 300px; z-index: 999;  }

jQuery:

$('#video-overlay').click(function(){
   document.getElementById('video').play();
});

Answer 2

I used this

<video id="video" controls=“true” width="300" height="250" poster="gray30x25.gif"  autoplay onplaying="this.controls=false">

controls=“true” - makes it work on ipad

autoplay - makes it autoplay except mobile

onplaying="this.controls=false" - removes the controls when playing

It autoplays on laptop, and works on iPad!
thanks Doin

Answer 3

By design you can't autoplay video, but it's simple enough to remove the controls after playback has started, which I'm guessing is the effect you really want:

<video id="video" src="video.mp4" poster="image.jpg" preload="auto" onplaying="this.controls=false"/></video>

Answer 4

The best I can do is play the video as soon as the user touches the screen to do anything, even scroll down the page.

function playVideoNow(e)
{
    document.getElementById('video').play();
    document.removeEventListener('touchstart', playVideoNow);
}

document.addEventListener('touchstart', playVideoNow, false);

Answer 5

As of now, iOS 6 supports the autoplay element on some devices.

Check http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/autoloop/ for reference.