Currently in full development of a mobile application video sharing (based on PhoneGap), I hesitate about the method used to send / play videos on mobile. So I have a choice between using the HTML5 video tag (which apparently require an additional plugin so that there was no problem in android), and the establishment of an RTSP streaming server, which I think the native video player will be directly launch.
I want to know what would be the best solution to watch these videos without losing quality with the ability to navigate the time of the video.
Thank you, Yeppao
Both streamed videos and embedded <video> elements will open in the native player (at the time of writing at least) and you won't be able to display video inline. See this recent question of mine.
So, at least to me, this boils down to the question if you can afford the streaming (both in terms of costs and maintenance) since a streamed video will always offer a better user experience (in case the streaming works properly...) than a downloaded one.