full screen auto landscape mode

[colax]

Hi,

first thanks for the code.

How did you make video Full Screen automatically on landscape mode? It seems isnt allowed by the browser unless you trigger a click/keydown events.

[robnyman]

Hi,

You can't. For security reasons, it has to be triggered by a user action.

[colax]

So how does it work in your project? Because it is full screen on landscape with no button triggered.

And how are they doing for example in Youtube website?

[robnyman]

Depending on mobile OS, videos in landscape - once they have started playing - will be in fullscreen mode. But that still takes the user trigger of starting the video/pressing fullscreen or similar.

[colax]

Yes, first the video needs to be played.

But anyway, I'm using android 7 in my site and yours, and yours when I switch to landscape, it starts full screen. That's why I don't get it.

Could it be the player? I'm using a custom HTML5 player from Unreal Media Server developers. In the end, it is HTML5.
i thought about simulate a click or keydown but it doesnt work neither.

That's why I'm quite interested in your solution :)

[robnyman]

I think it's rather the default operating system, and since my code just use the basic APIs to do it. It could rather be that, as a side effect, some of the more complex players' implementation then block that native behavior.