I have searched a lot for this and found a lot of posts but none could help me.
I am trying to show a mp4 video like this
<video width="640" id="video1" controls="controls">
<source type="video/mp4" src="~/Content/Videos/HelpVideo.mp4" />
Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video>
But it always shows Error: Unsupported video type or invalid file path in IE11.
It works perfectly in firefox and chrome.
Even in IE11 when I right click on video and select Copy Video URL option then also it returned correct video URL which I get able to download and play properly.
The strange thing is when I try the same video in a sample project having only one html page and the same video in the same folder, it works in IE11 also!!
So can it be related to wrong path or something? I am using MVC4
I tried #Url.Content("~/Content/Videos/HelpVideo.mp4") for path but that also didn't work for IE.
I also tried adding mime type in project web.config file as well as applicationhost.config files
Edit
Just found in the network pan of developer tool of IE11 that mime type is going wrong for my videos, mime type is going application/octet-stream while it should be video/mp4
When I check this microsoft website for video support, http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/videoformatsupport/default.html it shows the correct mime types for videos i.e. video/mp4
So now the exact problem is known.
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I have yet to find any examples of a MP4 played using the tag for HTML5. All the examples that I have found play using alternative code for Flash or other formats. In case my test video was not suitable I downloaded from a working example online but on my web page it does not play. The code is simple enough:
<video width="640" height="360" controls autoplay>
<source src="test/big_buck_bunny.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
I have tried my test page in the latest Chrome and Firefox web browsers, but each gives the same message... "No video with supported format and MimeType found".
Chrome and Firefox do indeed support HTML5 video and the video object code is correct. So if the test page is not working the next step is to check that the server displaying the test page does indeed support MP4 files.
If you are using Apache put in your Directory directive:
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
If you are using Windows Server, instead of editing the site which can create an unwanted web.config file in your root, add the MimeType to the server. That way MP4 will be applied to all sites on the server:
Go to IIS Manager > Mime Types and add a new entry for
.mp4 video/mpeg
Click to save and then restart the server.
I have a mp4 video which is downloaded from some external site. The video is playing well in that tutorial site. But not in my site. This issue is only in ie9 browser.
source
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</body>
</html>
I have downloaded the mp4 file and also ogg file which is not important for the ie9. In the following link the video is working fine.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_video_all
The same source and videos only i'm using but the video is not playing.I have checked the permissions also. Please help me to resolve this problem
First load up the page and press F12 to bring up the developer tools , then pop over to the console tab in the console , get reference to the video object using the script below (If the video element is not the first video element then you will need to adjust the array value ).
document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].error.code
The code that is returned let you know what’s gone wrong,
MEDIA_ERR_ABORTED : 1
The fetching process for the media resource was aborted by the user.
MEDIA_ERR_DECODE : 3
An error has occurred in the decoding of the media resource, after the resource was established to be usable.
MEDIA_ERR_NETWORK : 2
A network error has caused the user agent to stop fetching the media resource, after the resource was established to be usable
MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED : 4
The media resource specified by src was not usable.
In IE9 if you get error code 4 then there are two common issues:
INCORRECT ENCODING
IE9 supports H.264 in an MP4 container and WebM if the user has the codec installed on their machine. To support IE9 you will need to ensure that you have correctly encoded your video. For H.264 video I use Miro (a .net application on windows that wraps up FFMPEG) or if I want a specific baseline or setting I use Expression Encoder.
DIRECTORY
Are you placing the media files in the same directory holding this html?
If not, set right path to files.
MIME TYPE
You need to make sure your sever returns the correct MIME type when it returns a file. If the file is MP4 then the files MIME type should be video/mp4. If you want to check the MIME type then use the F12 developer tools (press F12 in IE9) and then navigate to the Network Tab. Press Start Capturing and refresh the web site.
GOOD LUCK
Finally i make my video work by the following way.
I found the problem by using the Jef Rechards and nmaier answers. I have faced two problems
1) My video was encoded with mpeg4 instead of h264. So i have encoded using ffmpeg libx264 codec .
2) The mime type of my video was text/plain even given the type="video/mp4" in video source. I have added the mime type by added the following code in my .htaccess file
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
Now the video is playing well in ie9
Ok, this is just guessing, but in order for html5 video to play, the server needs to serve the files with the correct MIME or IE9 (and other browsers) will refuse these files.
MSDN:
Beginning with Internet Explorer 9, any audio or video content needs the correct mime type set on the server, or the files won't play.
MDN:
If the MIME type for the video is not set correctly on the server, the video may not show or show a gray box containing an X (if JavaScript is enabled).
I'm having an issue with getting local videos working for the HTML5 Video element.
If I try and view a local OGG or WebM file directly, in Firefox 16.0.2 it works, but in chrome 22 it does not work!
However, if I view an OGG file on another webserver, it works correctly.
For example this file
http://www.quackit.com/video/pass-countdown.ogg
Works correctly for me, but if I save it onto my own server as
http://test.jammaloo.com/pass.ogg
Then it works in Firefox, but Chrome will not play it.
I believe the mimetype is being set correctly, can anyone help me track down the issue?
First of all try with adding support for more video types
Link - http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/client/how-to-embed-video-using-html5.html
video id="sampleMovie" width="640" height="360" preload controls
<source src="HTML5Sample_H264.mov" type='video/mp4;' />
<source src="HTML5Sample_Ogg.ogv" type='video/ogg;' />
<source src="HTML5Sample_WebM.webm" type='video/webm;' />
video
Second check your .htaccess file for content type - add mime type for webm, ogg, mp4
Link - http://docs.sublimevideo.net/troubleshooting
Link - http://www.htaccess-guide.com/adding-mime-types/
These solved my problem of playing video in HTML5 video tag. Hope it helps you too.
As i checked in the CHROME your content is not getting loaded with correct "TYPE"
If applicable (and nothing works) you can use- http://www.longtailvideo.com/players
I have searched around quite a bit but have not solved my problem.
I have a video tag running as follows:
<video
class="ne"
src="{{ page | video_url }}"
muted="true"
volume="0"
controls
width="720"
height="480"
poster="{{ page | video_poster_image_url }}"
type="video/mp4">
</video>
I am using Jekyll for the URLs. They work fine.
The site is live at switzerlandllc.com. Click any video in FF and it shows an image and an X. Chrome and other browsers work fine.
If you grab the source of a video and load it in a new tab it plays fine. At least it does for me.
I have added:
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
to my htaccess file. I suspect that I don't need the .ogv or .webm.
I don't understand why loading the video URL will play the videos fine but loading the video into a video tag fails.
Any ideas?
This is caused by the limited support for the MP4 format within the video tag in Firefox. Support was not added until Firefox 21, and it is still limited to Windows 7 and above. The main reason for the limited support revolves around the royalty fee attached to the mp4 format.
Check out Supported media formats and Media formats supported by the audio and video elements directly from the Mozilla crew or the following blog post for more information:
http://pauljacobson.org/2010/01/22/2010122firefox-and-its-limited-html-5-video-support-html/
I can confirm that mp4 just will not work in the video tag. No matter how much you try to mess with the type tag and the codec and the mime types from the server.
Crazy, because for the same exact video, on the same test page, the old embed tag for an mp4 works just fine in firefox. I spent all yesterday messing with this. Firefox is like IE all of a sudden, hours and hours of time, not billable. Yay.
Speaking of IE, it fails FAR MORE gracefully on this. When it can't match up the format it falls to the content between the tags, so it is possible to just put video around object around embed and everything works great. Firefox, nope, despite failing, it puts up the poster image (greyed out so that isn't even useful as a fallback) with an error message smack in the middle. So now the options are put in browser recognition code (meaning we've gained nothing on embedding videos in the last ten years) or ditch html5.
I have the following HTML5 video code on my homepage and it acts strange in Firefox 11.
<video width="900" height="508" autoplay="autoplay" controls="controls">
<source type="video/webm" src="http://www.mysite.com/MovieClip.webm"></source>
<source type="video/mp4" src="http://www.mysite.com/MovieClip.mp4"></source>
</video>
When the homepage on my site loads, I see in the place of the video the following error message:
"No video with supported format and MIME type found."
However, when I open up the media path "http://www.mysite.com/MovieClip.webm" directly, in a new tab, it loads the media just fine (using the internal Firefox HTML5 video player)!
Then, right afterwards when I go back to my homepage and refresh the page, it now loads the video just fine! Any ideas on why this is happening and how to fix?
Thanks in advance!
Be certain that your web server is configured to deliver WebM video as MIME type "video/webm". You can quickly and manually check if this is the case by telnetting to your web server and issuing a HEAD request:
telnet www.mysite.com 80
[after connection...]
HEAD /MovieClip.webm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mysite.com
And finish the request with 2 carriage returns. The HTTP response header should contain a "Content-Type:" line. If it doesn't say "video/webm", Firefox won't accept your WebM file.
Regardng to Multimedia Mikes answer. If your server delivers the wrong mime type to the videos just put a htaccess file with following content into your videos directory:
AddType video/mp4 mp4
AddType video/ogg ogg
AddType video/webm webm
This worked out well.
If, please rate his answer ;)
Greetings
func0der
I am not entirely sure this will solve your problem, but we also have noticed erratic behavior with .webm movies in Firefox 11 (only on Windows): The video element's playhead automatically jumps to the end of the movie, even if you open the file explicitly, i.e. without a surrounding HTML page. This of course renders all autoplay settings unusable.
Our solution was to change the order of the sources, so that Firefox would prefer .ogg files over .webm - there was no need to change anything else in the HTML code.