request of info: hoe to play video from local file system

[elenaaralla]

Hi,

this is only a request of info, not an issue

in your example, when image is recognized, a sound was played; there is a way to play video saved locally on devices (under www folder)? I tried these plugins:

com.dawsonloudon.videoplayer (but works only for Android)
cordova-plugin-streaming-media (but doesn't work with local file)

I tried html5

Thank you,
elena.

[mattrayner]

Hi Elena,
You have two options with this, you can either:

1. Write some platform-specific code to launch the video within Vuforia (not recommended)
2. Use a plugin such as Device to detect which operating system your app is running on and then launch a plugin/video depending on the os and version.

I've previously played videos using point 2 from above, I've checked the OS and then the version, writing some code to play the video in whichever way works for that device.

I hope this helps?

[elenaaralla]

Sorry,

I'm not able to add labels...thank you.

[mattrayner]

I've previously used https://github.com/jaeger25/Html5Video for Android video playback and some code like this:

// Get video
var videoObject = $('#MyVideo');

// If Android
if (device_platform == 'Android') {
  var videoID = $(videoObject).attr('id'); // Get an ID to pass to the HTML5Video plugin

  // Add a small delay of 100ms
  setTimeout(function () {
    window.plugins.html5Video.play(videoID) // Play the video using Android plugin
  }, 100);
} else { // If iOS
  videoObject.play(); // Play the video using standard HTML
}

// When the video finished
videoObject.onended = function (e) {
  console.log('Finished video');
};

[mattrayner]

Hopefully this will all help 👍

[elenaaralla]

Hi,
I'll try this code asap.

Have a nice day,
elena.

[mattrayner]

@elenaaralla - just a note, device_platform is a variable that contains the output of device.platform. See the Device plugin documentation here: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-device/#deviceplatform

[mattrayner]

@elenaaralla how did you get on?

[mattrayner]

I'm going to close this as off-topic - feel free to comment back though if you need any more help 😄