Problems With Drop Down Menus Over Playing Html5 Video

I'm having some issues getting a drop down menu (jQuery) to work on top of playing HTML 5 video. When the video hasn't started playing yet, like when one first loads the page, it's

Solution 1:

if i change manually the css property "display: none;" to "display: block"; it even works in chrome with the overlay. i see you are using an effet to show your dropdowns. have you tried it without that?

so just simply change your display and check if that works.