HTML5 <video> element on Android

Question

According to:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html

Android 2.0 should support the HTML5 video element. I haven\'t been able to get th

Answer 1

I tried using the .mp4 format to play a video on Android devices but that did not go well. So after some trial and error, I converted the video into the .webm format and following code with no extra javascript or JQuery:

It worked on an older Android device (at least a few years old as of 2020).