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Soatl
Soatl

Reputation: 10592

Embed a video to a webpage that will work on Blackberry/Windows Phones

I have been looking for an answer to this for a while with no luck. This SO question gives a lot of detail to the problem I am having, but is unanswered:

I'm trying to embed a video on a website that will play on blackberry and windows mobile 6.5 devices (currently testing on a blackberry curve and acer betouch) but don't seem to be getting anywhere.

Blackberry Flash doesn't work, and HTML5 video doesn't either. I can play video in the browser on youtube so can see that it is possible - using third party services like youtube isn't really an option either.

Windows mobile 6.5 Same deal really, though I think Flash is the way to go (http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ says the device has flash version 9.1.something installed) but still just getting a little triangle with a 9 in when I test it.

My question is: How would I embed a video to a webpage for blackberry and windows mobile?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1313

Answers (2)

Eddie
Eddie

Reputation: 10148

For a full overview of HTML 5 video and flash fallback (to support all devices) consider reading here..

http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/video.html

Vorbis OGG may be the safest bet..

Upvotes: 1

dwmcc
dwmcc

Reputation: 1074

I think that using the <object> tag would be safest, as Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices should both support it. Here's a link to the Blackberry developer blog, where they explain embedding video/audio objects so they are viewable on a Blackberry device. This method should work for Windows Mobile devices as well: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/6176/HTML_ref_object_564145_11.jsp

Upvotes: 1

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