How can I detect whether or not a device uses it's own video player rather than the HTML5 player?

Question

How can I detect whether the actual HTML5 player is being used, or if a 3rd party player is hi-jacking the video outside of HTML5?

iPhone doesn't use the HTML5 video player (thanks Apple) but rather uses its own player full-screen. This means any apps, regardless of responsive design, don't work if they expect an interface to be involved with the video.

So I need to know this in order to either make my app work differently with devices that do something similar to iPhone, or at least fail gracefully.

Answer 1

As I told in you in my comment, it seems that is not possible .

So I am afraid that you will need to go for agent sniffing. Check this post to see how to identify an iOS device .