I want to embed an mp4 in my Rails 4 app.
=video_tag "movie.mp4", controls: true
This works in Safari. However, in Chrome, the play button is grayed out. In Firefox, which I never use and may not have the requisite plugin installed, it says "Video format or MIME type is not supported" in the video player box.
The video is about 100mb and was created with iMovie.
Shouldn't mp4s play in the latest Chrome and FF? Is this a problem with the way I created the mp4 in iMovie?
Edit: added image of network console:
Edit 2: If I navigate to /assets/movie.mp4, the movie still doesn't play, and this is what I get in the network console:
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When I try to access a mp4 video url in IE 11 it prompts the user to download the video instead of playing it in the browser. But I am able to play the video in Chrome/Firefox. Here is a sample url, https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerEscapes.mp4
Is it because IE 11 does not have any in-built Media Player
How to make the video stream in IE 11 instead of prompting the user to download. Kindly help. I am using Windows 10 and IE 11.471.17134.0. Thanks!
Its because it is a file. It has extension .mp4
Any link with file in end will be downloading, except in modern browsers this option has changed to autoplay, since a player has been embeded in modern browsers. Thats why opening video or audio file with most popular extensions like .mp4 will be auto playable.
If on modern you want to download, then from menu toolbar choosing File->save (shortcut CTRL+S) on some for better faster response can right click and choose save video.
On IE it does just basic downloading.
Anyways would recommend to let IE stay on its own way and not use it for malware insecurities and vulnerabilities. Use from securest ones Chrome, Opera, Firefox or any other top browsers.
Trying to access my video (mp4, h.264, AAC ) with browsers like:
www.mysitesample.com/video.mp4.
It is displayed well in Safari and Opera (OSX) but on Firefox I have "file is corrupt " error. On Chrome player is being loaded but cannot press play.
The file seems to be fine, I can open it in also on my computer.
Also have other video which works in every browser (mp4, h.264, aac).
These 2 videos seem to be in the same format and codecs so im not sure why one is not working in Firefox and Chrome ? what can cause this problem?
Issue
The embedded Youtube flash player only plays audio and displays a black box where the video should be in Firefox.
Site: Nexus Gaming Media
To see the issue try playing the video that appears when the above home page is loaded (in Firefox). The audio works fine but there's a black box where the video should be.
Despite the above issue other embedded videos work fine for me in Firefox. Such as the embedded video here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube_player_demo
Tested flash player versions: 11.6.602.180 and 11.7.700.141 (11.7 beta)
What I've tried:
Re-installing the flash player
Using the beta flash player
Deleting all of the flash player cache files
Multiple profiles in Firefox
Modifying CSS values
Using a private browsing window in Firefox
Starting Firefox in safe mode with the default theme and all add-ons disabled
I cleared the history and cache after each modification and then I restarted the browser. The video playback works fine for me in Google Chrome (note that I have pepflashplayer disabled). Does anyone have any idea what's causing the embedded player to work in Chrome but not in Firefox?
Have you tried setting the wmode as a query string? (i.e. '?wmode=transparent')
here below are my codes i used:
The page works fine on Google Chrome, Safari and Opera browser but i cant get the video to play in firefox 6 and IE 9. can anyone please say what is wrong? I thought that .ogg file is compatible with firefox but still the video dont play at all.
here is my site: http://pages.intnet.mu/taoravi
Check the server headers:
It's worth re-emphasizing for the time being, that if the MIME types for Theora video are not set on the server, the video may not show or show a gray box containing an X (if JavaScript is enabled).
from https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/Video#Server_support
I have a .mov file embedded in a web page, using nested object and embed tags.
It displays fine in Firefox & Chrome, but just displays a Quicktime icon with a question mark over it in IE6-8.
Before it displays the icon, it runs the quicktime activex control and flashes the beginning of the movie up.
Any ideas on what could be the issue? I've tested that I have Quicktime and the Quicktime browser plugin correctly installed, and I can view other quicktime movies inside of IE8.
I suspect that it is the movie itself, but it still plays fine in Firefox and Chrome.
If I go to the file directly in IE, it runs correctly.
Maybe you have blocked Quicktime Activex or object tag is bad formed for IE try view source another website with Quicktime that work in IE and FX and download source code from view html
Or else you can use it
JW Video an File Streamer Server
It appears that the Quicktime plugin is just tetchy sometimes, so I ended up converting the file to Flash and posting it that way.