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**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [August 17, 2012, 10:39am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-video-tag-in-ipad-1/39022 "2012-08-17T10:39:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:**  [@Eugene\_Krupatkin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Eugene_Krupatkin)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 10:39am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-video-tag-in-ipad-1/39022/1 "2012-08-17T10:39:48Z")
I’m having a strange problem streaming HLS on original iPad, running latest iOS5.
Here is a simple video tag that I use:
[HTML]
Your browser does not support the video tag.
[/HTML]
It works as expected in a webpage on iPhone4S. First showing the Play icon on top and when that clicked, plays full screen. All good here.
When I try to input the URL directly into Safari URL on iPad:
[http://192.168.1.19:1935/app\_demo/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8](http://192.168.1.19:1935/app_demo/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8), it ALSO works fine.
When I try to open the same exact webpage on iPad, it’s just showing the black rectangle, no Play icon on top, not responding to touch either.
I then decided to try Apple original samples here:
[HLS Examples](https://developer.apple.com/resources/http-streaming/examples/)
And surprisingly my old iPad easily handles both Basic and Advanced HLS without a hitch.
I’m also positive that this used to work when I was running full evaluation version, but now I downloaded (the same Wowza version) and installed Developer Evaluation.
What could be wrong?
G
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**Author:**  [@Eugene\_Krupatkin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Eugene_Krupatkin)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-video-tag-in-ipad-1/39022/2 "2012-08-17T13:30:33Z")
> I’m having a strange problem streaming HLS on original iPad, running latest iOS5.
>
> Here is a simple video tag that I use:
>
> [HTML]
>
> Your browser does not support the video tag.
>
> [/HTML]
>
> It works as expected in a webpage on iPhone4S. First showing the Play icon on top and when that clicked, plays full screen. All good here.
>
> When I try to input the URL directly into Safari URL on iPad:
>
> [http://192.168.1.19:1935/app\_demo/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8](http://192.168.1.19:1935/app_demo/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8), it ALSO works fine.
>
> When I try to open the same exact webpage on iPad, it’s just showing the black rectangle, no Play icon on top, not responding to touch either.
>
> I then decided to try Apple original samples here:
>
> [HLS Examples](https://developer.apple.com/resources/http-streaming/examples/)
>
> And surprisingly my old iPad easily handles both Basic and Advanced HLS without a hitch.
>
> I’m also positive that this used to work when I was running full evaluation version, but now I downloaded (the same Wowza version) and installed Developer Evaluation.
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> G
Solved by adding “controls” to the video tag:
[HTML]
Your browser does not support the video tag.
[/HTML]