I've been working on an HTML5 video implementation, but I'm having some issues. I've been following the guide at http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html. I have encoded .m4v, .ogv, and .webm versions of all of the video. Chrome and Firefox have no troubles playing the video. When I attempt to play it in Safari, it loads the video container, but not the video. You see a white space where the video should be, the controls, and the "loading" text. In Web Inspector's network tab, the video's status is "pending" and the mime-type is "undefined". Interestingly, I only experience this problem on the staging site, while it works fine on my local dev.
When I visit the video directly in the browser on local dev, I get the following output in the console:
Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type video/x-m4v.
GET http://site.dev/content/videos/movie.m4v Plug-in handled load
Note that GET has a little red x to the left of it in the inspector.
My html code looks like:
<video class="html5-video" width="700" controls>
<source src="content/videos/movie.m4v" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
<source src="content/videos/movie.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' />
<source src="content/videos/movie.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
Your browser does not support this video.
</video>
Additionally, the video is ~20mb.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Well...it turns out that the issue occurred because I was using .htaccess to password protect the directory. Interestingly, all browsers except for Safari would allow access to the video files. Thanks to those who helped!
Try encoding to mp4 and replace this file instead m4v format, update your code and run.
Work's fine.
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I must start by saying I'm a newbie to html. I start from scratch and I try to do it the right way.
I've got a lot of help from stack overflow and most of my problems were solved by other's requests for help. But I don't seem to get an answer to a simple problem I got.
I've checked several answers to this problem, but none of it works for me.
MY PROBLEM: my videos only plays on Safari and at no other browser.
The most relevant post was the following: HTML5 video won't play in Chrome only
I tried the correct order and re-converting my files to mp4, ogg and webm using Miro converter but both didn't work. I added the codecs in to my code but this doesn't change anything. I added plays-inline as well from another relevant post but nothing...
My code is the following:
<!-- LANDING PAGE VIDEO - INTRO VIDEO -->
<video class="videoIntro" id="SiteIntro" autoplay="no-repeat" poster="VMF_MENU.png" plays-inline>
<source src="videos/Site_Intro.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="videos/Site_Intro.webm" type="video/webm" codecs="vp8, vorbis">
<source src="videos/Site_Intro.m4v" type="video/mp4" codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2">
<source src="videos/Site_Intro.ogv" type="video/ogg" codecs="theora, vorbis">
</video>
I got no error messages (expected).
What do you suggest I try to correct this?
Thank you in advance!
I'm having issues with my .mp4 vidoes not playing on mobile on either Chrome or Safari (haven't tried Explorer or Mozilla). This is the code that I am using for the videos:
<video autoplay loop autobuffer muted playsinline style="width:100%; height:auto;">
<source src="/static_imgs/lo_macbook_mockup.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<img src="/static_imgs/lo_site_reskin_img.jpg" title="Legal Outreach site reskin." />
</video>
I've tried with and without playsinline and muted but still nothing. Works fine on desktop. The site with the videos listed is https://bigsheep.design/projects/legal-outreach-4
It's possible the H264 profile of High # Level 5 is not supported on your test mobile device.
Try to export (or re-encode) the video with a Profile settings of Baseline # Level 3. This basic profile can decoded by the video chips in most devices, after that you can try increasing up to Main and try different Levels for it.
In your video encoding tool, you want to find similar option to this (image from Handbrake tool):
I have a couple of videos uploaded to Hostgator (my hosting service), and I'm displaying them on a page with the HTML5 video player. The video is there (I know because I can hear the audio,) but in Chrome all I see is a black screen, and in Firefox it won't play at all, just says "No video with supported format and MIME type found."
The video files are both ones I had to convert from a .mov to a .mp4. But they are all mp4 files.
When I download the videos again from Hostgator, they are normal, so I don't think anything is wrong strictly with the files themselves.
What could be going wrong here? Thank in advance.
I suppose the issue is in wrong codec. It should be h.264 for MP4 file.
Source with instruction http://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_create_and_embed_html5_video
Web video is complicated, most browsers support different video formats (codecs). To be compatible with all browsers you need every video in 3 different file formats: MP4, OGG, WEBM.
For maximum compatibility, here’s what your video workflow will look
like:
Make one version that uses WebM (VP8 + Vorbis).
Make another version that uses H.264 baseline video and AAC “low complexity” audio in an MP4 container.
Make another version that uses Theora video and Vorbis audio in an Ogg container.
Link to all three video files from a single element, and fall back to a Flash-based video player.
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg">
</video>
Source: http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html#what-works
I've been using Video.js to embed mp4 videos, it's a great player, thanks to everyone who develops and works on it. For the most part, it's working great, but I have a few small issues I need to figure out.
Here's one of the video pages; Columbia River Bass Fishing. It's mostly XHTML Transitional, I think mixing the HTML 5 in is causing some issues, especially with attribute values, but as long as it works, I'll figure out the details later. Here's the video.js code:
<video id="WAW_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls preload="auto" width="640" height="360" poster="ColumbiaRiverSmallmouthBassFishing.jpg" data-setup='{"WAW_option":true}' >
<source src="ColumbiaRiverSmallmouthBassFishing.mp4" type='video/mp4' />
<track kind="captions" src="captions.vtt" srclang="en" label="English" default />
Your browser does not support this video. Maybe you should update your internet browser
</video>
The video stuff works great in Firefox, Chrome and IE11, but no captions. The "captions.vtt" file is correct and IE10 will display the captions locally on my computer, but on the remote server there are no captions. I tried using the full URL location for the VTT file but that didn't work either.
A quick look at the coding on this page should tell you that I'm no expert, but I'd like to try and produce code that works and is compliant, so forgive the stupid questions.
Thanks in advance
Ron B
Change .vtt to .txt rule out if it's a MIME type issue with your web server config.
If you need to add web.config to your root, it needs to list .vtt as an acceptable MIME type.
I have a simple html 5 video on a page that works in Chrome and Firefox but not in Safari.
<div class='show_page_video'>
<video controls='' height='320' id='movie' poster='http://cloud-coach-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/58e68874774da1c4d18b37dc9dee3c9c_1.jpg' preload='none' width='400'>
<source src='http://cloud-coach-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/58e68874774da1c4d18b37dc9dee3c9c.ogv' type='video/ogg'></source>
</video>
</div>
The video poster loads but the video isn't grabbed and when I click play nothing happens, also in the network tab I don't see any attempt at grabbing the video data.
Anyone run into this issue before?
It appears I was flawed in my thinking Safari supports OGG so I just had to rework some things to have multiple encodings for videos and added an mp4 fallback source