I am trying HTML5 video tag and I have downloaded a Microsoft sample and trying to run it but a strange thing is happening, and it is that it plays video coming from a URL (commented tag) but for local mp4 file it do not shows error and shows message "Invalid Source"
Here is my code please guide me what I should do to make it run local file correctly ?
Thanks
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<!--<video src="http://www.bing.com/az/hprichv/?p=Butterfly_Clipcanvas_223479_EN-US.mp4"
autoplay loop>
</video>-->
<video controls src="hprichv.mp4" width="300" height="200" autoplay loop>
</video>
</body>
</html>
EDIT
Web page and video files both reside in the same folder.
Im on Windows 7 Pro. I develop locally and then host/serve remotely. Trying to load a local mp4 file while developing locally ran into this identical situation. No combination of using localhost/myvideo.mp4 or 127.0.0.1/myvideo.mp4 or /aaa/myvideo.mp4 or myvideo.mp4 in same directory as file got things to work...but referencing a full URL like http://www.mywebsite.com/myvideo.mp4 did, as above.
On local machine, Chrome shows no error messages...just shows black box with controls. No clues as to whats up. Switched to IE and it showed the black box and controls and the error message. 'Invalid source'
I focused on #steveax question and Mime types.
Turns out IIS in this version of windows/IIS does not have a MIME type setup for .mp4. No clue why not...but not.
To add the MP4 MIME type, open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and follow these steps:
Highlight Default Web Site on the left panel;
Double-click MIME Types on the right panel;
Scroll down the list and notice that there is no .mp4;
On the right panel again, click Add: at the first field, write .mp4 and on the field below write video/mp4
Click OK and you are done.
Restart IIS!
I got this problem and found that the video codec was not supported.
Get a video converter software (like Oxelon - it is free) and choose the output to be .mp4 (even is the source is .mp4). Choose the video codec to be "H264" and the audio codec to be "AAC".
This will solve your problem.
I had the same problem
For Internet Explorer
I used FormatFactory, setting up AAC encoding for audio and H264 for output for the mp4 format, in "High Quality and big size"
For Google Chrome
I converted my original video to the webm format thanks to Free WebM Video Converter (make sure you uncheck everything that would like to install ads).
It took a long time but then it worked in Chrome.
<video controls>
<source src="thevideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="thevideo.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>
I had a similar issue but it's just with IE 11. Firefox works great.
On IE, if I go to Compatibility View and add "localhost" to the list, the box disappears altogether.
Related
Just as the title says. I've been working on a site and had added a big html video for the main page.
I looked over online...myme types checked, h264 encoding checked. I looked over old versions of the file i've been working on and noticed an old pure HTML file which loaded the video in all browsers with no problem (which I guess discards any encoding or video quality issues)
It all was working neat. Even displaying in firefox, chrome an IE. BUT for some reason the video does not load in IE whenever the file extension for the page it's on is .PHP. To be precise, whenever i try it from my LOCALHOST (XAMP with Apache server)
I also checked the dev tools and under network it does show it as the right content type and no error whatsoever (getting normal 200 result)
Here's the snippet of the video tag used:
<div id="video_container">
<video autoplay loop poster="video.jpg" id="header_vid">
<source src="imagenes/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
LOL, and just noticed...not even the poster image is showing in IE...wtf.
I'm so confused, could anyone enlighten me a bit please? Could it be something related to the path used? been digging around the net for days _
Check if your url is formed properly when you are using .php extension on IE. Same issue addressed quite a few time here.
mp4 from PHP - Not playing in HTML5 Video tag ||
Play mp4 file through php in HTML5 Video Tag in Chrome?
I notice IE doesn't like the properties without value, so try
<video autoplay="" loop="" poster="video.jpg" id="header_vid">
I want to show a video on my website. I have created a .mp4 file and using the HTML5 video tag to add it to the html.
The problem is that it is not being displayed in chrome. I would also like to know how I can replay it again and again.
I too had the same issue. I changed the codec to H264-MPEG-4 AVC and the videos started working in HTML5/Chrome.
Option selected in converter: H264-MPEG-4 AVC, Codec visible in VLC player: H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Hope it helps...
After running into the same issue - here're some of my thoughts:
due to Chrome removing support for h264, on some machines, mp4 videos
encoded with it will either not work (throwing an Parser error when
viewing under Firebug/Network tab - consistent with issue submitted
here), or crash the browser, depending upon the encoding settings
it isn't consistent - it entirely depends upon the codecs installed
on the computer - while I didn't encounter this issue on my machine,
we did have one in the office where the issue occurred (and thus we
used this one for testing)
it might to do with Quicktime / divX settings (the machine in
question had an older version of Quicktime than my native one - we
didn't want to loose our testing pc though, so we didn't update it).
As it affects only Chrome (other browsers work fine with VideoForEverybody solution) the solution I've used is:
for every mp4 file, create a Theora encoded mp4 file (example.mp4 -> example_c.mp4)
apply following js:
if (window.chrome)
$("[type=video\\\/mp4]").each(function()
{
$(this).attr('src', $(this).attr('src').replace(".mp4", "_c.mp4"));
});
Unfortunately it's a bad Chrome hack, but hey, at least it works.
Source: user: eithedog
This also can help: chrome could play html5 mp4 video but html5test said chrome did not support mp4 video codec
Also check your version of crome here: html5test
(#Alston posted this as a comment, and it worked for me, and 9 others who also upvoted, so posting this as an answer to get more eyeballs on it:)
Simply re-encoding the video file with this FFMPEG command solves it:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec h264 output.mp4
This started out as an attempt to cast video from my pc to a tv (with subtitles) eventually using Chromecast. And I ended up in this "does not play mp4" situation. However I seemed to have proved that Chrome will play (exactly the same) mp4 as long as it isn't wrapped in html(5)
So here is what I have constructed. I have made a webpage under localhost and in there is a default.htm which contains:-
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<video controls >
<source src="sample.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<track kind="subtitles" src="sample.vtt" label="gcsubs" srclang="eng">
</video>
</body>
</html>
the video and subtitle files are stored in the same folder as default.htm
I have the very latest version of Chrome (just updated this morning)
When I type the appropriate localhost... into my Chrome browser a black square appears with a "GO" arrow and an elapsed time bar, a mute button and an icon which says "CC". If I hit the go arrow, nothing happens (it doesn't change to "pause", the elapsed time doesn't move, and the timer sticks at 0:00. There are no error messages - nothing!
(note that if I input localhost.. to IE11 the video plays!!!!
In Chrome if I enter the disc address of sample.mp4 (i.e. C:\webstore\sample.mp4 then Chrome will play the video fine?.
This last bit is probably a working solution for Chromecast except that I cannot see any subtitles. I really want a solution with working subtitles.
I just don't understand what is different in Chrome between the two methods of playing mp4
Encountering the same problem, I solved this by reconverting the file with default mp4 settings in iMovie.
I was actually running into some strange errors with mp4's a while ago. What fixed it for me was re-encoding the video using known supported codecs (H.264 & MP3).
I actually used the VLC player to do so and it worked fine afterward. I converted using the mentioned codecs H.264/MP3. That solved it for me.
Maybe the problem is not in the format but in the JavaScript implementation of the play/ pause methods. May I suggest visiting the following link where Google developer explains it in a good way?
Additionally, you could choose to use the newer webp format, which Chrome supports out of the box, but be careful with other browsers. Check the support for it before implementation. Here's a link that describes the mentioned format.
On that note: I've created a small script that easily converts all standard formats to webp. You can easily configure it to fit your needs. Here's the Github repo of the same projects.
I am making a system that I run on localhost, it embeds a video player and all works fine except for webm videos on Chrome. They freeze regularly and I can only get them running again by pressing play/pause and moving to the initial phases of the video.
I have been googling for this issue and trying to solve it for some time now without success, does anybody know how to solve this?
Is your same WebM file working ok on Firefox? I assume you are using HTML5 video.
I have compiled a short check list on how to troubleshoot HTML5 video playback issue here. Try to play the videojs webm sample to see if it works.
Given the description of your issue I guess it is either a non proper WebM file or a server side tuning issue (like with mime types).
If it is a file format issue you could try re-transcoding from a known good source (ie not the problematic WebM file) with firefogg.
You can also try to set the preload attribute of your HTML5 video tag to auto.
Here is the configuration of system I am using
Ubuntu : 12.04
Mozilla Firefox : 26.0
I have a mp4 file, when I open it directly in browser like
http://localhost/MyProject/web/video/samples/A001C026_140418WK.mp4
It runs in browser properly, but when I try the same file to render through html5 video, it is not getting played and shows below error.
No video with supported format and MIME type found.
I know this question is appeared many times but I did not get the clear way to kick this problem, second thing this file is getting played properly using <embed> tag.
Video tag syntax
<video width="854" height="480" controls>
<source src="{{asset('video/samples/A001C026_140418WK.mp4')}}" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
path specified is correct, I have checked properly.
Please guide, where the things are going wrong or missing.
Thanks in advance.
Your problem seems to rely in the fact your mime types are not properly configured server side. Have a look here for set up steps. Make sure you restart/reload your web server for changes to be taken into account
After you have checked that it should work in a HTML5 video tag.
For MP4 H264/AAC to work with Firefox on Linux you need to have GStreamer codecs being installed. But I guess you have that covered. You can find more information in this article section notes.
You can check this question for further troubleshooting steps.
I need to play .m4a files (recorded on iPhone) in IE(9+) and Safari (iPad, iPhone). I am facing problem with setting correct MIME Type. For playing in IE10 I need to set audio/mp4 but for Safari audio/aac.
With audio/mp4 I am getting Cannot play audio file on iPad.
With audio/aac I am getting Error: Unsupported audio type or invalid file path in IE
Is there a type I can set for both?
<audio controls="controls" autoplay="autoplay">
<source src="play.aspx?filename=sound.m4a" type="audio/mp4" />
</audio>
Notes
Using an alternative player is not a solution for me.
I serve the files thorough .aspx page so I can control HTTP headers.
From observing the page HTML 5 Audio Across All Browsers using m4a, oga, mp3 and Flash it seems that possible solution is to give type="audio/mp4" and NO conten-type header. However removing HTTP header in aspx is rather too complex for problem I am trying to solve(see Removing/Hiding/Disabling excessive HTTP response headers in Azure/IIS7 without UrlScan).
Audio is still in working draft, so browser experience will vary.
Having said that, the mime type that's most prevalent is audio/x-m4a. Some sites show audio/m4a-latm as a valid mime type for m4a audio but as of this writing, even Chrome doesn't recognize that mime type.
You can try this snippet in different browsers to see if it works - I verified it in IE11, Chrome (v37) and IE9 (emulated via Dev Tools).
Audio Tag sample
I've also found (personal observation) that audio recorded on iPhone doesn't play most of the time on web. Almost all browsers say the file is invalid and if you download the recorded file, it doesn't even play in media players (e.g Windows Media Player). I suspect iOS core audio is to blame here but haven't found anything conclusive yet. Audio recorded from Android works fine though.
At this point, having a flash fallback seems like the best option (won't help on iHateFlash devices though).