OK, so roll ahead, here’s the end solution. With a very small amount of very simple jQuery, the player will pop to full screen over the existing page elements, and has instant replay and GO LIVE capabilities when in live mode. The scrubber control in VOD mode is not fluid because seek capability is limited. And wouldn’t you know, volume control and bitrate metering for m3u8 segmented dynamic video is not supported on iPad at all (thanks Ken Hanson for helping me out of the frustration and leading me back in the right direction).
iStreamPlanet HTML5 Video for iPad solution with dynamic stream capabilityMy efforts to keep updating the progress failed – deadlines and classes thwarted me to death, but hopefully I’ll catch up one of these days. In any case, I had to revise the HTML a bit and add in the jQuery…without giving away the farm, here’s some of it. (more…)