so the vita doesnt seem to be able to play html5 video in browser (because its browser is a pile of shit as everyone knows)
html5test also doesnt work so i cant tell the specifics
but youtube in browser works perfectly fine.
i grabbed the user agent and spoofd it on my desktop and i attempted to play a video and the player never opens.
why is this? how did they get it to work? why does the video player work on vita but not on desktop? how does it work on the vita at all? especially as the vita browser doesn't support flash or html5.
if i can work out how this works, i can build a server to stream media over my home network as the dlna player is also completely fucked and the vita community will rejoice
thing is, if it was easy enough for someone who knows nothing about js like me to do, someone would have done it by now
fug
i feel so inferior
EDIT: well ok it plays when the video is started via javascript hmmm
EDIT2: holy fuck i modified UMS's default web viewer to have a play button that calls .play() on the video and it works on the vita now holy shit
EDIT3: aaand it will only play a video if it's 1280x720, h264 + aac, 44100hz
jesus its so specific. everything else buffers infinitely (when 48khz) or errors out (1080p).