How can I detect whether or not a device uses it's own video player rather than the HTML5 player?

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How can I detect whether the actual HTML5 player is being used, or if a 3rd party player is hi-jacking the video outside of HTML5?

iPhone doesn't use the HTML5 video player (thanks Apple) but rather uses its own player full-screen. This means any apps, regardless of responsive design, don't work if they expect an interface to be involved with the video.

So I need to know this in order to either make my app work differently with devices that do something similar to iPhone, or at least fail gracefully.

I'm afraid that it is not possible, check [this](https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/1498) — David, Sep 04 '15 at 15:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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As I told in you in my comment, it seems that is not possible.

So I am afraid that you will need to go for agent sniffing. Check this post to see how to identify an iOS device.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Sep 04 '15 at 23:50

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How can I detect whether or not a device uses it's own video player rather than the HTML5 player?

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