Currently i have some problems implemeting a video with the HTML5-Video-Tag. I implemented the video in the formats .mp4, .ogg and .webm to support all common browsers.
My first problem is now that the video is displayed on all browsers but the IE. I yet tried to add the MIME-Types in the .htaccess file but that brought no improvement.
The next problem is that the video is displayed normally on mobile devices but on desktop devices there is no sound. I'm nearly despeiring :D
Is there someone that had the same problems or could give me a hint? I woukd be very very thankful.
Kind regards
Edit: Code example
<video width="100%" height="100%" controls>
<source src="intro.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="intro.ogg" type="video/ogg">
<source src="intro.webm" type="video/webm">
Some text....
</video>
First of all, please specify Internet Explorer version. For instance, it's IE6, HTML5 video player won't work at all.
Second, the problem can be in MP4 file itself. The file needs to be encoded with h.264 codec. Please check the MP4 file media data. For example, you can do it with MediaInfo software.
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I'm including a video in a page and have had no problems in Chrome or Safari thus far, but on Firefox the viedos are muted and the volume can't be changed. Here is the video code
<video src="video/test3.MOV" controls>
<p>Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Here is a
</video>
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
It might be because the version of Firefox is too old. Only versions Firefox 21 (or Firefox 30 for Linux) and above can support video mp4. And even if it meets the required version there are still problems with Firefox support certain mp4's inside of .mov files. More information here about the firefox issues.
Offer other codecs. .mp4 and .webm are what I always offer. FFMpeg can transcode into these formats for you. That should fix your issue. Re: how to use FFMPeg, see Getting Started with FFmpeg, Introduction to the FFmpeg Command Line
It's really not difficult at all. View page source from here.
<video controls poster="ThroughGeorgeMichaelPalaisGarnierParis.jpg">
<source src="ThroughGeorgeMichaelPalaisGarnierParis.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="ThroughGeorgeMichaelPalaisGarnierParis.mp4" type="video/mp4">
I'm sorry; your browser doesn't support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8/VP9 or MP4 with H.264.
</video>
First I made a screen recording as a video I would like to display.
Than I uploaded the video to VLC to convert the video.
I made one MP4 and a fallback for OGG.
I then moved the videos to my dropbox account so I can host them there.I right clicked and got the link to each video from dropbox. I am trying to use the links as the src in the video tags.
<video width="400" controls>
<source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7emkfs994sgm5g/Untitled.m4v?dl=0" type="video/mp4">
<source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9owwdbm8p0nz1f0/oggguntitled.ogg?dl=0" type="video/ogg">
</video>
Even though I told VLC to convert it to MPV, the file extension is m4v.. Is that the same thing?
The video just shows blank. Not getting any errors either.Not sure what I missed.
The following Fixed it for me.
I made two changes:
change dl=0 at the end of your dropbox link to dl=1. I believe this makes it a download link instead of a page to view a download link.
Due to a bug in chrome on OSX certain mp4 files will fail to play correctly (some kind of graphics acceleration issue), but it won't fall back to the ogv. For this reason, i have placed the ogv as first since it will work on OSX-chrome, and platforms that don't support it should fall back to the mp4.
<video width="400" controls>
<source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9owwdbm8p0nz1f0/oggguntitled.ogg?dl=1" type="video/ogg">
<source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7emkfs994sgm5g/Untitled.m4v?dl=1" type="video/mp4">
</video>
If you look at my web page you'll see that the top video (medieval guy with red nose) plays perfectly, both video and audio.
But if you look at the bottom (2nd) video, when you play it, there is only audio. The "video image" you see is actually not the video itself, but a png utilizing the "poster" html tag.
Here is the html for both videos:
<video src="http://shapeshed.com/examples/HTML5-video-element/video/320x240.m4v" poster="http://shapeshed.com/examples/HTML5-video-element/images/posters/les.jpg" controls="true" width="320" height="240">
Your browser doesn't support the video tag. You can download the video here.
</video>
<video src="videos/Play.mov" poster="videos/Play.png" controls="true" width="800" height="600">
Your browser doesn't support the video tag. You can download the video here.
</video>
The 2nd video is the one I care about, but I cannot get the video to work in Chrome -- it only plays the audio. But on Mac Safari the video works fine. Am I doing something wrong? It seems I'm implementing my 2nd video exactly the the 1st video. Why does 1 work and 2 doesn't?
EDIT: I got further along, but now in iPad only (Chrome works, iphone works) I get video but no audio. Any ideas?
EDIT #2: I need my 2 videos to play correctly on Apple Safari -- nothing else matters, because all users besides Apple devices will be seeing Youtube-embedded videos. Can anyone tell me exact steps to convert AVI to a video format guaranteed to work in Apple Safari?
Your video is encoded with MPEG-4 Part 2 video and AAC audio. MPEG-4 Part 2 video is not supported by Google Chrome. Unless you manually install additional codecs, the only video codec supported by both Safari and Chrome is H.264 (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, or MPEG-4 AVC). If you re-encode as H.264 it should be placed in a MP4 container with AAC audio and a .mp4 file extension (not .mov).
Web video is complicated, most browsers support different video formats (codecs). To be compatible with all browsers you need every video in 3 different file formats: MP4, OGG, WEBM.
For maximum compatibility, here’s what your video workflow will look like:
Make one version that uses WebM (VP8 + Vorbis).
Make another version that uses H.264 baseline video and AAC “low complexity” audio in an MP4 container.
Make another version that uses Theora video and Vorbis audio in an Ogg container.
Link to all three video files from a single element, and fall back to a Flash-based video player.
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg">
</video>
Source: http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html#what-works
You might want to try something like this:
<video controls>
<source src="somevideo.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="somevideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
I'm sorry; your browser doesn't support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8 or MP4 with H.264.
More help here html5 video
Different video types support different browsers. You can convert your videos in HTML5 format using some software like DVDVideoSoft Free HTML5 Video Player And Converter or any other. In second video you are using mov video which only playing audio.
I'm trying to use the html5 video tag to embed an mp4 but I'm having some issues that vary across different browsers.
My code looks like this:
<video controls="controls" width="640" height="360">
<source src="http://www.mydomain.com/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
IE - Won't recognize the file when trying to embed (edit: IE was actually dragging on the file size not the format) and when the uri to my video is plugged into the address bar it opens the video in windows media player.
Chrome, Firefox - Simply will not recognized the file format (edit: Firefox was dragging on the size as well, Chrome was the only browser having issues) and when the uri is plugged into the address bar it attempts to play the video within the browser but fails.
Could there be something within the file that would prevent it from being embedded? If so, how can I find this out?
The problem is likely that the browsers are not supporting MP4, because it is a proprietary format. To get the best cross-browser support you'll have to also encode your video in WebM and Ogg/Vorbis formats and then add those files to your video tag with their own source tags.
Just because a browser will play a video if you navigate directly to the video's URL does not mean that the browser supports that format. Usually, navigating straight to the video causes the browser to play the video with a plug-in such as Quicktime or VLC that has much better codec support than the browser does.
try this without that "/"
<video controls="controls" width="640" height="360">
<source src="http://www.mydomain.com/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" >
<source src="http://www.mydomain.com/video.ogg" type="video/ogg" >
</video>
My HTML5 video player won't play a file longer than one hour. Here is my code:
<video src="/Movies/MP4/Blaa.mp4" controls="controls"></video>.
I am quite new to HTML5 so i am asking what the problem could be? Any answers are appreciated.
-Simon
It looks like you're only using a single mp4 file, so I'm not sure if this will help, but I was able to solve my problem by switching the order of my source files. From what I can tell, Chrome is able to play H.264 video (which is what is usually contained within the MP4 wrapper), but it is unable to play MP4 files. I'm guessing that they finally removed support for MP4 like they've been saying that they were going to.
Here's what my code used to look like:
<video width="640" height="360" controls>
<source src="http://example.com/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="http://example.com/video.webm" type="video/webm" />
<source src="http://example.com/video.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
</video>
From my understanding, when a browser tries to render an HTML5 video tag, it's supposed to skip over any source tags that it can't play, and attempt to play the first one that it can. For whatever reason, Chrome is not currently doing that. It's trying to play the MP4 anyway, and failing.
Even the video on the "Video for Everyone" page is failing for me now.
My solution was to switch the order of the source tags so that the webm video came before the mp4 video:
<video width="640" height="360" controls>
<source src="http://example.com/video.webm" type="video/webm" />
<source src="http://example.com/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="http://example.com/video.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
</video>
So far this has fixed the problem. Chrome now plays the webm file with no issues, and all other browsers I have tested still seem to work fine.
The only possible problem that I still need to test for is that I've read that the iPad had a bug that required the MP4 source to be listed first. I'm working on getting my hands on an iPad to see if that's still an issue.
For now, this solution fixed my problem.
Hope that helps!
The problem was that chrome won't play MP4 movie files at the moment. Safari is the only working browser right now.