html5 video stopped working

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Last week my application stopped showing video ( playing hls streams and mp4 files via html5 video tag ) on android, only sound is heard without picture. After i switching into fullscreen mode ( android native player ) all working fine.
App # - 320021
Can anybody knows what happening?
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Roman Azarov

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Posted 7 years ago

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Yann S

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Hi Amir, can you give us some good news about this issue ?
One month to add just one line in AndroidManifest... it's hard to understand :(
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Taras Taranenko

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I am quite sure the problem is not only in that manifest parameter. After I have rebuild my app with hardwareAccelerated="true" my video streams begun working but I have received several unpredictable issues with my code which is not emerged in simple browser tests.
So phonegup guys, please fix this issue and let us know when we finally can deploy our apps in playstore.
Thank you.
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Yann S

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Is this a new issue (do you had this problem before ? do you have in debug mode ?)
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Eddy Verbruggen, Champion

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Great news, I found a solution!

I ran into this very problem myself yesterday with my app Game TV, which embeds video in a PhoneGap app. The video didn't play unless it was fullscreen. Also, scrolling a list of video's was dead slow.

What I did was download the debug apk, remove some files, sign it with my release certificate locally and uploading it to Google Play. Now I'm able to release new features of my app again without the problems mentioned above!

More details and a step-by-step guide here in the blog I just wrote:
http://www.x-services.nl/sign-an-andr...

Hope it helps some of my fellow Builders.
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Eddy Verbruggen, Champion

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Also, I just found out that the problem seems to be fixed, which is great news: https://github.com/phonegap/build/iss...
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Yann S

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Issue fixed and solved by Phonegap Build team :
https://github.com/phonegap/build/iss... ;)

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