HTML5 video on iPad

Question

I have a dynamic video gallery and it works great on a computer. When moving to an iPad, the video starts loading and it shows the cannot play icon. Instead of this I\'d r

Answer 1

On the iPad it will not load the video until a user starts an event this is by design of apple to prevent iPhone or iPad users from burning up their data plans. So you will not be able to do what you want sorry.

Check out this link and look for the Device-Specific Considerations section for some info. But it will not start loading data so it couldn't fire the canplaythrough event until a user touches it.