I am trying to add a video tag to get a video player with my video like this
The video shows up fine sometimes as shown above, but most of the time it shows up weird and not functional as shown below
No matter if I click play or not, it just does not work.
Here is my code
<div class="detailRight">
<video id="video1" width="515" height="300" preload controls>
<source src="../files/MyVid1080.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</div>
I'm not sure why it works sometimes and sometimes it does not. How do I get past this bug?
EDIT1
Above is in Chrome, in Safari it is working fine, in Firefox it is giving me
in order to support all browsers i would recommend using .ogv .webm and .mp4 formats this should solve your problems their are a couple of online sites that will convert your video for free
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I'm trying to play an external HTML5 video within a webOS web application. According to this question, webOS should support .mp4 video, but whenever I try to play a HTML5 video within my application, the video simply won't load/play. My code (for testing purposes):
<video id="demo-video" autoplay muted loop>
<source src="http://mirrors.standaloneinstaller.com/video-sample/jellyfish-25-mbps-hd-hevc.mp4"
type="video/mp4">
Your Smart TV does not support the current video format (MP4)
</video>
I've tried different sources, but none of them seem to work. When testing in a browser, it does work, but when opening the application on a webOS Smart TV, nothing happens. Even trying to play a local .mp4 file doesn't work.
I found out that .play() on the video element returns a Promise with status pending. Strange behaviour and reloading the source doesn't fix the problem.
I found the problem: it had something to do with the styling I applied on the <video> element. When developing, Chrome showed the video just fine. But apparently, border-radius is not allowed? At least not in the version of Chrome used on the Smart TV and emulator. So if you're experiencing the same problem, check for styling that may cause the video not to play.
Try adding width and height attributes to your video tag. The video works on my TV.
<video id="demo-video" width="1920" height="1080" autoplay muted loop>
<source src="http://mirrors.standaloneinstaller.com/video-sample/jellyfish-25-mbps-hd-hevc.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your Smart TV does not support the current video format (MP4)
</video>
I have working code for a video element within my site thats fully functioning on ios 9/10 and all the normal browsers (chrome/ff/ie) etc.
I've noticed that since the ios 11 update the videos no longer play or even work at all. They appear as a blank box with the controls but pressing play does nothing and opening the video full screen does nothing.
Here is my relatively simple code
<video playsinline onclick="play()" controls autoplay
controlsList="nodownload">
<source src="assets/images/video_im.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
I've tried different variations of using playsinline="true" and controls="true". They have no effect.
I've tried to google the issue but there seems to be nothing except a podcast taking about ios 11 removing html5 video support, surely there is a fix?
Any insight/help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
It looks like the following code:
<video>
<source src="path/to/video.mp4">
</video>
stopped working on ios11 (with many other features too...). I confirm that source tag did work on ios9 here). Try placing the src="path/to/video.mp4" into the video tag directly, it should work on ios11.
A working example taken from webkit.org post on New video Policies for iOS:
<div id="either-gif-or-video">
<video src="image.mp4" autoplay loop muted playsinline></video>
<img src="image.gif">
</div>
Safari on MacOS seems to have a similar problem, maybe it's easier to test there. Looks like we lost the multiple source feature tho :(
I had a similar problem with videos not playing on Safari. The problem was my web server. I moved the video to another hosting server, loaded it from there and it worked.
e.g.
instead of:
<video src='/myVideo.mp4' controls> </video>
do something like this:
<video src='https://anotherServer.com/myVideo.mp4' controls> </video>
I'm trying to create a HTML5 video background for a website but I cannot seem to get it to work on Safari. Does anyone have any ideas?
Here's the HTML video tags I'm using
<video id="bgVideo" class="bg__video" autoplay loop>
<source src="./vid/Sample_Vid.ogv" type="video/ogv">
<source src="./vid/Sample_Vid.m4v" type="video/m4v">
<source src="./vid/Sample_Vid.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>
I've tried adding a script tag under it to start playing the video with JS but that's not helped either.
document.getElementById("bgVideo").play();
When I inspect the page it looks like the video element is taking up space in the DOM but it's just invisible basically.
I've also tried opening the .m4v files directly in the browser & it plays it there so I assume the file isn't an issue. These were all generated from easyhtml5video.com
I also have the Modernizer script to detect if autoplay is enabled for the browser which I've had to alter based on a pull request in the github repo as it was always saying that Safari doesn't support autoplay otherwise.
The test site I've setup is http://treetopia.neilnand.co.uk/
The supported video format for Safari is mp4 with H.264 encoding. (you have a .m4v extension and file type)
If video does not has sound - use
document.getElementById("bgVideo").volume = 0;
Safari don't allow autoplay for videos with sound.
I have the following code:
<div class="span4">
<video poster="assets/img/poster.jpg" controls="controls" width="420" height="420">
<source src="assets/videos/152638831.webm" type="video/webm" />
<source src="assets/videos/152638831.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
</div>
The video works in both Firefox and chrome, but in Chrome, it's very very grainy. I don't think it's an issue with my video because when I navigate to http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp using Chrome, the video under the section called "DOM Methods and Properties" also appears grainy. When i say grainy, I mean, I see yellow, green, blue and red lines / dashes spattered across the video.
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Also, is the idea behind having multiple source tags that depending on the browser, it will select which file to play? In my case, I know firefox doesn't support mp4... I tested it. but the above code works in firefox. So I'm assuming it's playing the webm version of the file. Is this correct?
Thanks.
First of all, Chrome should be able to read the mp4 so perhaps you didn't use h264 compression.
You should check on that.
Second, you must include compressed ogv, and webm versions of the video.
Each browser supports a different video format at the moment so we have to include them all so that no one gets left out.
Here is a handy chart for browser video format support :
http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/#media_formats
Don't forget the flash fall-back either, just incase someone with a dinosaur browser that doesn't support the html5 video tag needs to see the video too.
Here is a handy chart for video tag support :
http://caniuse.com/video
Let us know how you get on.
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.