title: Does the html5 video tag work with windows hta?
body: <p>I am writing a simple game using HTML5 and JS, to run on my own machine. I want to be able to play a video and to know when the video has finished, and I want to be able to write to a file on an external drive as a backup.
  I was going to use Adobe Air, but it doesn't support the HTML5 video tag, so I tried HTA. I can't find anything on the web saying definitely if the video tag is supported or not.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Test page&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;video id="vid_1" width="720" height="480" autoplay&gt;&lt;source src="videos/intro.mp4" type="video/mp4"&gt;&lt;/video&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>works fine in a browser, but just a blank screen as a .hta</p>
  
  <p>Is the video tag supported in HTA? Or is it the video format that's the problem?</p>
  
  <p>I have tried mpeg and flv, and I have tried an absolute path for the video source.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>added later: using windows 7, IE11</li>
  </ul>