After creating a creative banner with an mp4 video in Google Web Designer and then upload that creative to DoubleClick the source file has changed from mp4 to webm. The issue here is that webm in Safari is pixelated and the creative/ad is not shown properly, while on other browsers its ok. Is there a setting in DoubleClickStudio to prevent it from transcoding the mp4 video and use the default mp4 instead ?
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I am starting development on a project containing a web browser video streaming module.
I am seeking advice on whether a Red5 server will be useful or not required as I am new to the video streaming arena -
Users will upload video footage in all formats, .MOV .MPEG4 .AVI .WMV .MPEGPS .FLV .3GPP, and I need to allow other users to stream the videos youtube style (not live).
Thanks
Red5 would be useful for this, but only certain media formats are supported for Video on demand VOD streaming. Any other formats would need to be transcoded into flv or mp4.
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).
IE10 audio element doesn't play my AAC (m4a) files.
Should it? the content type of the files is "audio/aac".
When I check:
audio.canPlayType("audio/mp3") --> TRUE
audio.canPlayType("audio/aac") --> FALSE
audio.canPlayType("audio/m4a") --> FALSE
I thought it should but why it doesn't?
I convert my files to AAC because of IE10 and mobile safari that don't support OGG. Safari Mobile plays this AAC files well.
See the Remarks section in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ff975061%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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. Internet Explorer 9 and later support MP3 audio, and MP4 audio and video. [...]
Media file to serve Extension setting Mime type setting
...
Audio mp4 m4a audio/mp4
...
So you need to check for audio/mp4 in your code, and also make sure that your server sends this mime-type in the content-type header.
I have a webpage with a tag on it with the following markup:
<video width="456" height="360" controls autoplay>
<source src="Movies/Intro.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="Movies/Intro_H264.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"'/>
<source src="Movies/Intro_H264.ogg" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'/>
</video>
If I visit this page in IE10 it renders the video player but with an error message that reads: "Error: unsupported video type of invalid file path"
But what's odd is if I right-click on the video box and choose, Copy video URL, and then open a new tab in IE and paste in the direct URL to the video file (Movies/Intro.mp4) it plays in the browser without issue.
Also, I can visit the page using Chrome and it plays the MP4 video from the webpage without issue. All that to say, I don't think there's any issue with the video file itself or the encoding, but why is IE 10 not playing the video when it's in the tag, but it is playing it when requesting the video directly?
Any insights?
Thanks
I would check whether the mime-type is correctly being returned for the file.
Chrome will play correctly regardless of the MIME Type returned.
To check:
Press F12 to display the IE Tools Window/Pane.
Go to the Network Tab
Click Start Capturing
Browse to the page in question
Find the mp4 line
If the Type is displayed as application/octect-stream then this is your issue.
I had the same issue with IE 11 and the problem was the content type was application/octect-stream as stated by csmith. I was serving my videos from Azure storage and apparently that is the default content type.
You can change the type with Azure storage or using Azure api as shown in the post
Set Content-type of media files stored on Blob
Here is a guide for people on Amazon cloud (I did not test it)
Changing content type for Amazon
Make sure you set the web server to use MIME type video/mp4 for .mp4. I accidentally set .mp4 to use MIME type video/mpeg, the video plays in Chrome, but not in IE11.
I had this same issue which was a real pain in the ass. My solution was actually quite simple (after searching on the internet for about 4 hours).
Add this line (specific for IE) to your .htaccess file.
AddType video/mp4 .mp4 .m4v
When you paste the URL to your browser it doesn't use HTML5 player anymore, so it doesn't say that it is really a supported file; only that the file path should be valid.
According to wikipedia, IE10 supports (not only) H.264 for video and AAC for audio - these are very common formats for mp4 container. Chrome's support is much wider (video- and audio-wise).
The problem is that the Intro.mp4 file might have different formats altogether (the file could by just renamed or created using unsupported formats).
I'd look into the file using properties->details or third party programs (for example Media Info).
I don't think it is IE10's issue. The only similar one I've found is when the user was too specific using unsupported format of used codecs ([...] type='video/mp4; codecs="H.264, AAC"' [...]).
Now it is very easy to update mime type for your videos on amazon s3,
Just login and navigate to your file, under preferences you will see metadata, there you can edit content-type
Save it and reload your page.
If it directly plays find when you put the .mp4 URL into the browser make sure it's not running with the Quicktime plugin which you may have installed (especially if you use iTunes). Right click on the successfully playing video to rule that out. If it comes up with menu items related to Quicktime you may want to disable Quicktime plugin in adins and continue troubleshooting.
Sample MP4 video: http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4