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?
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