I'm using JW player to play some video files on the web but these specific 3 .mov videos are acting weird though the other 2 .mov files are playing okay. Looking at the console, seems like they're always redirected to cloudfront.net.
I've tried converting .mov to .mp4 since I have another video with this format that works fine but still the video could not be played.
I think it's the videos themselves that's defective but I don't know why since they would play fine on a player but not on the web.
Can anyone share why this is doing so?
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one of the user of the app I work for has an issue, all the video she upload doesn't work in an HTML5 video player, except on Edge and Safari for iOS (and if it works there I assume it could work in other browsers)
The video can be played in our react-native app or after being downloaded, but not directly using the S3 or cloudfront link
Since the vieos from the other users work, I'm assuming it's related to encryption and S3 specifications, does anyone have met this problem and found a solution ?
EDIT: forgot to put a sample link
https://video-reetags.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/compressed/aed0a512a419334fe5d0c0c6fb4094a21610642052.mp4
Since the videos from the other users are working fine, I'm assuming it's related to encryption and/or S3 specifications...
No, the problem is not encryption or S3 server issues.
Your MP4 container has video in HEVC format (aka H.265), which is not supported in Chrome or Firefox. You should still be able to hear the sound part since AAC audio is supported.
Playing the video is possible with React-Native and other (native) video players because they rely on the O.S running the player App to decode video. If a browser brand didn't buy a license for HEVC then that browser cannot play it.
Solution:
Re-encode such videos to MP4 containing H.264 with AAC audio (...not H.265 with AAC).
Re-encoding takes time but it's the only way for now. Either the user does it before any uploading, or your own app accepts any file and re-encodes the "not supported" ones on server-side (eg: using FFmpeg or GStreamer tool).
I am completely new to VideoJs and media streaming on web pages, so please forgive me if the answer to this is obvious. I uploaded an MP4, OGV and WEBM file to www.sell2trade.com.au. If you view this page you will see that the video on the RHS works in Firefox, has an unsupported error in IE11 and plays the audio only in Chrome!! I downloaded the VideoJS sample and followed it diligently (I think!!) What on earth am I doing wrong!
Thanks for any help as tearing what little hair I have left out :)
The MP4 you're using doesn't appear to be compatible with Chrome. You can go directly to the mp4 url in chrome and see the same audio-only issue. You should try a different encoder, like Zencoder (paid service that I helped build) or Handbrake.
Also it looks like you swapped out the url for the video.js swf for a different swf that plays your video. That's not gonna work. You need to use the swf that's included with video.js.
I'm testing some videos using "Video For Everybody" but for some reason my mp4 will not play in Safari. I also noticed that the Big Buck Bunny videos that VFE uses as the default are also not playing for me in Safari. Am I the only one having this issue?
http://v4e.thewikies.com/
I can't play few mp4 video with mp4v codecs. Other mp4 videos with .avc plays fine. is this a bug or i am missing something? Can you please help?
If only some files won't play, these files may be encoded the wrong way. Check, if the videos are being played directly by the browser, without VideoJS and if this isn't the case, check their encoding (for example with http://mediaarea.net/de/MediaInfo).
I used Sublime Video player to embed .mov, .mp4, and .mp3 files on a project I worked on a few months ago. It all used to work perfectly. I went back to this project this morning and the player mentions "Can't play video, Your browser can't play video using HTML5" and I can't play some of the videos/podcasts anymore. Some videos don't play either on my site or on "Publish video" interface provided on the Sublime video website (seems to be a MIME issue), some play in the "Publish video" interface, but not on my local machine or live environment.
Did something change recently? Why am I having this problem now?