HTML5 <video> element on Android does not play

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Published on 2010-05-26T08:47:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 8:51 UTC
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Video tags like below plays fine with iPhone, but not Android:

<video id="video" width="320" height="240" poster="video/placeholder.jpg" autobuffer controls>
  <source src="pr6.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
  <source src="pr6.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
</video>

With the above code, Android can't even click the clip. It would just see the poster image.

Video tag like below however works with Android:

<video src="vpr6.mp4" poster="video/placeholder.jpg" onclick="this.play();"/>

However, I still need to multiple sources capability (for Firefox ogv support…). Below code does not work (nor do they work if I stick the javascript into the source tags):

<video id="video" width="320" height="240" autobuffer controls onclick="this.play();">
  <source src="pr6.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
  <source src="pr6.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
</video>

With above code, the clip is clickable in Android, but still does nothing.

Can anyone help?

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