HTML5 video behavior on mobile devices

Question

I am building a site where I have several <video> elements (looped animations) that act as part of my design (not as an actual video). This works quite well in desktop browsers, yet I am in trouble on mobile devices.
When I display the site on Android or iOS devices (ie. mobile webkit) I will get the OS's video player appearance and the videos will open in some sort of popup when I click them. I do know that I can bypass the autoplay restrictions by doing sth like:

window.onload = function() {
    var pElement = document.getElementById("myVideo");
    pElement.load();
    pElement.play();
};

But this will again open the video(s) in a seperate window...

Does anyone know of a possibility to emulate / enable desktop-like behavior on mobile devices? Thanks!

EDIT: Markup is basic <video>-syntax btw:

<video autoplay loop>
    <source src="vid.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
    <source src="vid.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
    <source src="vid.webm" type="video/webm" />
</video>

Answer 1

Hmm, I'm not sure about Android but iOS devices can't run multiple video streams simultaneously:

Multiple Simultaneous Audio or Video Streams

Currently, all devices running iOS are limited to playback of a single audio or video stream at any time. Playing more than one video—side by side, partly overlapping, or completely overlaid—is not currently supported on iOS devices. Playing multiple simultaneous audio streams is also not supported. You can change the audio or video source dynamically, however. See “Replacing a Media Source Sequentially” for details.

Answer 2

No, Android or iOS devices (ie. mobile webkit) are not able to run video as you are wanting . Video will open in a default video player of device.

Answer 3

YouTube uses a mov or mp4 with ios to load the native look and feel for videos, or it links out to their app to play the video since it's installed on every ios device.

Answer 4

Why do you need windows.onload to bypass autoplay? If I remember correctly setting the preload tag to none

<video src="vid.mov" preload=”none”></video>

should work.

Also, have you tried using the Video For Everybody approach? With that should be able to get the video to play in the web page rather than by the phone's OS, that way I believe you can achieve the same effect on supported devices.

EDIT: In regards to j08691's answer, an alternative approach for iPhones could be to design a simple web viewer app for the site for iPhone which has a workaround for the no-multiple video playing problem.