AIR for iOS, Getting HTML5 Video to Autoplay in a StageWebView?

Hi all,
The video performance I get from the built in FLV video is pretty poor. I'm considering using a StageWebView to display a HTML5 page with a standard <video> in it.
The video shows up and (if I enable controls) can be played and it looks great (much better than FLV). The only issue is I cannot find a way to have the video autoplay once the StageWebView is loaded.
I've set the <video .... autoplay> parameter. I've also tried using JavaScript to send a video.play() (after the window load event is complete and the DOM is ready).
Has anyone figured this out?
I can't wait for AIR3.0 so we can just use StageVideo.. But for now I'm using AIR2.7 via Flash CS5.5 publishing for an iPad2 via AIR for iOS.
Thanks for any tips!

This was a pretty old post. In the advent of StageVideo it doesn't really matter anymore. StageVideo is GPU and you can autoplay all you like.
BTW there was an old project I'm unsure if it still exists but it was called StageWebViewBridge (SWVB) that reconnected AS3 and JS. You could call methods in JavaScript right from ActionScript the same way fscommand/externalInterface works. So you could force the video to start playing using that.

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