AIR for Android - StageWebView and Video (YouTube iFrame)

Question

Hey all,
I've been converting an iOS tablet app over to Android and I've noticed the StageWebView has some curious limitations, especially with anything that accessed the GPU (video, etc).
At first the embedded YouTube (iframe) videos would just show the first frame of the video dutifully with the usual play button. When pressed, the video went black and all I heard was audio. The reason I even mention this is it took quite a while to locate this Adobe page with a section entitled "Enabling Flash Player and other plug-ins in a StageWebView object". So I added in the application tag to enable the plugins with acceleration (<application android:hardwareAccelerated="true"/>) and now I can see video.
The erratic thing is on ICS (Android 4.0.x) the video plays in the StageWebView but it horizontally closes to about 20% its normal width. The video player doesn't scale to 20% width, the iframe is just somehow collapsing to that narrow width removing the ability to see 80% of the video or use the controls (e.g. no fullscreen button visible).
When tested on Jelly Bean (4.1.x) the video does not pinch horizontally, it (amusingly) plays horizontally backwards (mirrored) and upside down.
Previously with hardwareAccelerated="true" missing I could press play and then toggle fullscreen and the video would work fine. After adding hardwareAccelerated="true" I can no longer use fullscreen, it crashes the devices after locking up.
I also tried appending ?html5=1 to the YouTube videos to force GoogleAPI to choose a HTML5 player. This didn't do anything.
Has anyone found the sacred tome of knowledge required to get an embedded YouTube video to play in a StageWebView iframe?

Answer 1

Hi Sinuous.  Thanks for all your good help so far.
I decided to go the ANE route.  I found an example ANE that plays videos, to follow, and I am getting on famously so far.  I can send a message from Javascript (in the SWV) to Flex (using the location trick), and from there I instruct the ANE to show and play the video, which appears on top of the SWV.  Huzzah.   I have two questions for you (or others listening).
1.  My build has one platform:   <platform name="Android-ARM">
      Do I need another for Intel, or other architectures that Andriod supports?
2.  My video appears full-screen.  How can I control the size and position of the video?  I've tried a couple
     of things that don't seem to work.  The code resembles this:
//get the root container
          ViewGroup rootContainer = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)getActivity().findViewById(android.R.id.content)).getChildAt(0);
//make a VideoView
          VideoView videoView = new VideoView(getActivity());
          videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);
          videoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(getActivity()));
//make a video container and add the video view
          ViewGroup videoContainer = new FrameLayout(getActivity());
          videoContainer(videoView, new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
//add the video container to the root container
          rootContainer.addView (videoContainer, new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, Gravity.CENTER));
//set the video URL and start it
          videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(url));
          videoView..start();