Chrome, Firefox can't play video but IE can - html

I tried following code,
<html>
<body>
<object id="mediaplayer"
classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#version=5,1,52,701"
standby="loading microsoft windows media player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject" width="320" height="310">
<param name="filename" value="videos\videofile_96.mp4">
<param name="animationatstart" value="true">
<param name="transparentatstart" value="true">
<param name="autostart" value="true">
<param name="showcontrols" value="false">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<param name="windowlessvideo" value="true">
<embed src="videos\videofile_96.mp4" autostart="true"
showcontrols="false" showstatusbar="0"
bgcolor="white" width="320" height="310">
</object>
</body>
So when I tried to play this video in FireFox and Chrome, wasn't played, but IE managed to play it.
Later I tried to add Windows Media Player plugin,Activex Control Plugin to both, but still problem remains the same.
Can anybody help??


Your problem is with (both times you use) videos\videofile_96.mp4 -- those should be forward slashes (/). IE plays nice with \, but other browsers won't, necessarily.
Also, the \ indicates to me that you may be using this on a local machine, rather than through a web server; this will definitely cause problems in non-IE browsers.


You are trying to use ActiveX which is IE specific. Try html5 video instead and it will work in Firefox and chrome

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