Safari seems to be loading this video when it wants to, sometimes adding "http://" to the start of the url makes a difference, sometimes it doesn't.
It just wont load, or fallback to the img because its loading the video but not displaying it.
I'm honestly out of ideas, it's being super inconsistent.
Any help would be awesome:
video in jumbotron banner.
url in question here:
http://go.mmsg.com.au/authoring_maxxiaplus.html
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So I have a huge problem with Chrome.
I have a site that includes several videos with the <video> Tag of HTML 5. In Chrome the entire page doesn't seem to stop loading. The loading spinning circle is always spinning and it doesn't load content. If you click on some videos it will randomly load the rest of the content and the spinning circle will stop and get replaced by the favicon.
The strange thing however is that FireFox and even IE11 do load the page completly and with all the content.
After some investigation I found 2 videos causing this loading loop. If I comment these videos the page will load and everything is fine.
I checked if the videos are corrupt or damaged but they aren't.
So did anyone else have similar issues regarding videos in Chrome and how did you fix them?
So the answer to this question is a strange behaviour that's inconsistent across browsers.
If you don't set a preloadvalue to the video tag Chrome does preload the videos while FireFox doesn't.
Taking some values from this source it's actually quite significant. Chrome preloads 25s of the video while FireFox and even Internet Explorer don't preload anything.
I have html5 video tags of videos.
On chrome all is good, on firefox the orientation of landscape videos is wrong...
Even tried using video.js, no change.
I read that this is a problem because the videos originated in iOS.
so 2 questions:
1. How can I still overcome this issue. Really there is no solution?
2. (out of curiosity) - how does chrome manage to overcome this?
Example of a URL (scroll down a bit in the chapters to see a vertical video):
http://www.letsfeedme.com/moments/55802f142f2dad3c008b4575-Balsamic-Vinegar-%22Caviar%22
I read that this is a problem because the videos originated in iOS.
All videos recorded using mobile devices will contain rotation metadata including those from iOS and Android devices. It can take 4 values: 0 (tilted left), 90 (portrait), 180 and 270:
On chrome all is good, on firefox the orientation of landscape videos is wrong...
Firefox and IE 10 are the only major browsers not supporting the rotation metadata. Here's Firefox compared with Chrome:
The latest version, Firefox 42 as of today, still does not support it. IE11 and Edge 12,13 do support it.
List of mobile/desktop players that support the rotation info: https://blog.addpipe.com/mp4-rotation-metadata-in-mobile-video-files/
How can I still overcome this issue. Really there is no solution?
See this answer for the solution, basically you need to :
rotate videos using FFmpeg (so Firefox and other browsers that do not support the rotation metadata show the video properly)
remove the rotation metadata (so that other players don't rotate the video since it's already been rotated by FFmepg)
Images courtesy of: https://blog.addpipe.com/mp4-rotation-metadata-in-mobile-video-files/
Since the problem is with some iOS specific encoding options, which many NOT-Apple Players can't read, the easiest solution I can think of is to trancode and rotate the video.
Which was already discussed in oh so many posts on the web and here at SO... e.g.:
Video orientation using video.js
HTML5 mp4 video with firefox resizing video
Chrome HTML5 Video Flipping Portrait Sideways
http://help.videojs.com/discussions/problems/1508-video-orientation-for-iphone-wrong
I am guessing that Chrome is respecting the width="360" and height="640" attributes of your <video> tags, while Firefox is not. If I download one of your videos and play it back in Media Player Classic, again the orientation is incorrect. But just like in web browsers, there are inconsistencies: the same video opened in VLC player plays back with the correct orientation.
I would recommend that, if you can, you re-encode the videos using a (free) program called AVIdemux. I just tried it on one of your videos, and it worked well with minimal effort. As a bonus it shrunk your video down considerably, with only minimal quality loss.
Here are the steps:
Download AVIdemux from http://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.html
Install and run AVIdemux
Go to File menu and choose Open. Pick the video to re-encode.
Go to Video menu and choose Filters
Choose Transform > Rotate (double-click) > Rotate by 270 degrees (OK)
Click the Preview button to check the output
Click the Close button
In the main window, under Video Output, choose MPEG4-AVC (x264)
Under Output Format, choose MP4 Muxer
Click the Save Video icon, and in the resulting window type a filename and click the Save button.
Then you will need to re-upload your video.
Probably not really a viable solution but adding a CSS rule such as
video {
-moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
}
would at least make the videos play back in the correct orientation in Firefox. Problems with this:
videos that play back in the correct orientation without the rule will play back in the wrong orientation with the rule
the video controls also get rotated
the posters will display in the wrong orientation
I see your site uses video.js. It might be worth looking at https://github.com/xbgmsharp/videojs-rotatezoom ?
Is that no way to do it? I have a site want to build to using video for background, iPad runs perfect but iPhone's not.
Then I found out the problem is iPhone safari handle the inline html5 video by default full screen, some people said it could override by html5 settings with webkit-playsinline option, but I tried and no effect on the problem.
And I also found this link:
HTML5 video player behavior on iPhone and iPod in Safari Web Apps
The answer said the behivaor cannot be change even using the webkit-playsinline on it.
It that true? And if yes, are there any way to do the inline video in iPhone?
Thanks!
With iPad you can disable inlineMediaPlaybackRequiresUserInput in Objective-C for a web view.
On iPhone, Apple doesn't allow this option at all, so your at a loss on iPhone.
A workaround is a bit old-school, but you could use an Animated gif.
You can work around this issue by simulating the playback by skimming the video instead of actually .play()'ing it.
I wrote a module that takes care of playing the video and synchronizing it to the audio (but it also works on videos without a sound track): iphone-inline-video
Keep in mind that this still needs a "touch" to start, so it won't autoplay like on desktop.
I am using youtubes to embed my vidoes and have some elements that should appear on top o the video if clicked on.
This works perfectly on desktop browsers just not on mobiles themselves.
I have tried ?wmode=transparent to no avail.
Does anybody have any other tricks i can try?
See: HTML5 video: possible to place regular html content over video
Your issue may be similar i.e. quicktime player(ios) hijacking that area of the browser. The above link has a few hacks.
I am trying to make a website with a video background using HTML5's video tag. I also tried using a jQuery plugin (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/videoBG). I got the video to load and work properly, but every time it makes other content appear grainy/pixelated. Is there anyway to place items on top of the video background and not have them appear grainy / pixelated?
You can see the pages I've created. The code is fairly simple, so I won't include it here.
With Video: http://createinform.com/test4.html
Without Video: http://createinform.com/test3.html
You'll notice that the logo and text look different from page to page, but they are using the save CSS rules. Thank you in advance!
Cheers,
Evan
This seems to be a known issue with Chrome. I tried the same two pages in Firefox (5.0), IE (9), and Opera (10), and I couldn't tell the difference in the rendering.
EDIT: I also tried the two pages in Safari (5.0.1/Windows), and the rendering looks even worse there. So, perhaps it's a webkit issue.
A part the Chrome bug, your logo image is bigger than it appears, and is scaled down via CSS.
Using a correctly sized image would remove any logo issue.
The text below renders fine in both version BTW (chrome 14.0.797.0 m)