How to support Popup Video on Samsung internet

Samsung Internet
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When clicking popup video it says that “This website does not support popup”, the big question is, how to allow and/or support popup video on our website?

The fullscreen does work, but I cannot figure out what is blocking or what should be changed about the video/page to allow for the popup to work.

2

Hey can you try this?

In Samsung internet go to Settings–>Useful Features–>enable Video Assistant

You can also link your website to help people troubleshoot your issue.

3

Thanks, video assistent is turned on, otherwise the fullscreen or pop up video icon would not show up in the first place I guess.

I have found this problem to be somewhere within videojs. See for example the video on : https://videojs.com/ .

I would like to know what Samsung Browser expects so I can communicate to videojs what the actual problem is.

Is there any documentation on this?

4

Hello,

Thank you for reaching the Samsung Developers Forum with your query.

The pop-up player from Video Assistant in Samsung Internet is an android UI-based video player using Android Media Framework. The URL of the video content is required to launch the pop-up player. Currently, videojs, youtube, and other notable websites use the MSE video type, not containing a video URL.

To allow support for the pop-up video player, you will need to provide the video URL; in other words, you can not use videos of MSE type. Even if the video assistant introduced support for MSE video types, it would not work when you close/minimize/open a tab. For example, you may use HTML5 video type to add support for the video assistant on your website.

I hope I was able to answer your query.

Best Regards,
Samiul Hossain
Samsung Developer Relations Program

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For anyone running in to this using videojs:

The overrideNative setting has at some point been set to true where it was false before. When using the native playback the pop-up works, example:

videojs('playerId', {
  html5: {
    vhs: {
      overrideNative: false
    }
  }
});

This is for videojs 7.10.1+, for earlier versions the default seems to have been true.

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