Hide Video Download Button

[chris]

Hey Piotr,

First of all thank you very much for this Plugin! It saved me a lot of
time already!

I have one question regarding the HTML5 video playback: On Android when
opening a URL to a video file I get the playback controls like play,
mute, etc. plus a download button for the file. Is it possible to
somehow remove that button or is that something that is completely up to
the system?

Thank you very much in advance!
Chris

[Piotr]

Hey Chris,
Thanks for posting question here.
Could you tell me how do you open that video?
Is it video player embedded in your website or is it absoulute URL pointing to movie file?

I have to check it by myself so wondering if you could give me some example link.

Thanks

[chris]

Hey Piotr,

Thank you for the fast response! I’m opening the video with a direct link to the video file. You can try it with this link:
http://www.christian-schulze.eu/downloads/dotsandlines.mp4

Also we noticed that the download button works only on some devices and does nothing on others, but we’d like to remove it completely anyway.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

[Piotr]

Hey Chris,
I’ve checked that file on my device and don’t see download button.
Frankly, I didn’t even know it’s possible to play video directly so I might say my plugin is mp4 player as well 🙂

What I suggest is simply embed video file in your HTML5 player. Then you have full control on how it will be displayed.

[chris]

Hey Piotr,

Thank you for your feedback. I think the download button is only visible on some devices and in most cases it’s not clickable. When I read your documentation I thought it is meant to be used like this and just open the URL to the video file. It works the same way like opening a video file in the browser.

But due to the download button issue we are going to handle it like you suggested. We simply build/style our own little player and embed the videos in there.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers,
Chris

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