how to play html5 video on a webview android

Question

i am trying to load a webpage on a web view where the page has a video in it. i am able to load the web page on the web view but the video is not playing and the audio is he

Answer 1

Android Browser and WebView has many known problems playing HTML5 videos.

Android webview cannot render youtube video embedded via iframe

Unless you can target Android 4.0 or good modern firmwars, the current workaround is to have a thumbnail image link to a video and then this link opens the video in the native Android video player.

For more information with HTML5 video problems on Android please feel free to search stackoverflow.com.