HTML5 Video Css Background Color On IPad

Is it currently possible to set the background color of HTML5 video elements effectively? About HTML5 Audio and Video points to the fact that you can style video tags with standard

Solution 1:

Please refer to my question according HTML 5 on mobile safari.

Seems that it's impossible to control it, as video rendering is delegated to hardware through the browser, and is displayed "above", so controlling css properties of it would not affect anything.

My research was some ago, but don't think that since then anything changed.