Playing video from website on Nexus 7 using Chrome

[mzanette]

So my brother in law was testing out my Nexus 7 and he goes to some website with some asian tv shows that stream there. There's some player on the page called "Jwplayer". Apparently it plays html5 and flash. Anyway it doesn't work on Chrome for Android and apparently works on the iPad so he told me he wouldn't get an Android tablet because his wife wants to watch shows on that site. So I tried this site with Chrome in linux and it works, just wondering is there some plugin I just need to install for it to work on Android? I can't imagine there wouldn't be a non-rooted solution to this if it works in iOS right out of the box?

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

[anon(847090)]

its flash based website. the website might be redirecting iOS devices to HTML5 but not for Android tablet.

Solution: install/sideload flash + older version of firefox.

this is the after effect of flash being abandoned in Android. soon many websites will support html5 for android.

 

[mzanette]

its flash based website. the website might be redirecting iOS devices to HTML5 but not for Android tablet.

Solution: install/sideload flash + older version of firefox.

this is the after effect of flash being abandoned in Android. soon many websites will support html5 for android.

I'd rather not install flash, isn't there a way to get the site to link my browser to the HTML5 site? Any way to fake you're using Safari browser or something?

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If anyone wants to give it a shot on their Nexus 7 the site is http://azdrama.net/

 

[Unicorn Rancher]

So my brother in law was testing out my Nexus 7 and he goes to some website with some asian tv shows that stream there. There's some player on the page called "Jwplayer". Apparently it plays html5 and flash. Anyway it doesn't work on Chrome for Android and apparently works on the iPad so he told me he wouldn't get an Android tablet because his wife wants to watch shows on that site. So I tried this site with Chrome in linux and it works, just wondering is there some plugin I just need to install for it to work on Android? I can't imagine there wouldn't be a non-rooted solution to this if it works in iOS right out of the box?

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Yes. The error is with the web page. Adobe stopped supporting flash for mobile devices, but some web developers and webmasters don't know it, or they know and just don't care.

I can't try it at the office but is there some reason changing the browser's user agent to pretend to be an iOS device wouldn't work?

P.S. xkcd: Server Attention Span

 

[milliman]

I changed my browser agent to iPad and video works on most sites smart enough to use HTML 5.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

 

[mzanette]

I changed my browser agent to iPad and video works on most sites smart enough to use HTML 5.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

How do I do this?

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Android Central Forums

 

[leroy_sunset]

Maybe this will work? https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...NvbS53SXBhZFVzZXJBZ2VudE5ldyJd&token=HkERIIut

 

[leroy_sunset]

Another web search says to add the following .txt file to the /data/local/ folder on your tablet.

Chrome command line file: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5686291/chrome-command-line

 

[mr_nobody]

How do I do this?

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Android Central Forums

In another thread, he says that he uses the Dolphin browser which I guess allows user agent switching.

[edit]: And regarding the two posts prior to this one, a) that dev looks a little sketchy to me and b) that user agent does not look like an ipad to me.

 

[mzanette]

In another thread, he says that he uses the Dolphin browser which I guess allows user agent switching.

[edit]: And regarding the two posts prior to this one, a) that dev looks a little sketchy to me and b) that user agent does not look like an ipad to me.

Thanks guys! I figured this out. I did install Dolphin and set the user agent to "iPad" and it works flawlessly.