Into this dir there are :
OGV video (Theora/Vorbis) for Firefox
MP4 video (H264/AAC) for Safari
FLV video with a flash player (player.swf) for others browsers
a template.html which contains a snippet coming from Video for everybody
a .htaccess to add the new types of video
Locally the video is correctly displayed on all browsers.
But online Firefox doesn't display the video and ask for a download. Though the mime-type is correctly set in my .htaccess.
Any idea to fix this problem on Firefox ? (I use 3.5.3 release on Windows).
Thank you. :)
Note: it sounds that this problem doesn't appear on Ubuntu.
Edit : my Firefox installation was bugged. Now it's working correctly. Thank you Rudism. :)
It may be worth trying it in Google Chrome which support video/ogg as well. May help you debug...
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I am trying to use mediaRecorder API and make it run on maximum of browsers
video/webm;codecs=vp8,opus : that works fine on chrome and Firefox.. but not on Safari
video/mp4;codecs:h264 : works on Safari and Chrome.. but not on Firefox
It looks like Safari is now able to play webm.
What would be the mime type to use to make it run on both 3 browsers ?
I've been attempting the same thing and it is painful to say the least.
I'm able to use MediaRecorder to record video across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. BUT the resulting videos do not playback on all browsers.
Safari - records in mp4 and mp4 will playback on all browsers
Chrome & Edge - I'm recording with mimeType: "video/webm;codecs=vp9", which will playback on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, but not Safari.
Firefox - I'm using the default. It will playback on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, but not Safari.
Supposedly Safari will playback webm with macOS Big Sur 11.3. I need to upgrade to test this.
Unfortunately webm is still not supported by iOS, so I'm looking into the Cloudconvert API to convert webm videos to mp4 before storing in S3.
Other suggestions welcome.
You'll need to use the MediaRecorder.isMediaTypeSupported API to find out what the browser you are using supports. See this open PR for details.
That does not help with playback however.
You've stumbled into an electropolitical food fight.
Sad to say, there's no commonality of codecs between browsers. You won't be able to find a common codec. Apple (Safari) is firmly in the H.264 / AAC world, the world of MP4.
Chrome, but not open-source Chromium, supports H.264 (which carries a patent burden). The fully open source Chromium browser does not. Firefox, via an automatically installed plugin from OpenH264.org, does, but it only supports H.264's constrained baseline version, not the fancier versions. Use MIME type video/webm; codecs="avc1.42E01F" and you'll be fine in Firefox and Chrome.
Microsoft new Edge supports the same stuff as Chrome.
WebRTC is rigged to allow endpoints to negotiate codecs with each other. In my opinion this is a kludgey way to patch this electropolitical squabble.
This is not a good situation. But it's Q1CY2021 reality.
as a simple answer that I found since it's not simply out there. Use a library like below to record in mp3. It's not supported by browser MediaRecorder natively, but libraries make it easy to encode to mp3
and then you have a blob or file that can be played in any browser and even mobile devices like ios
https://github.com/closeio/mic-recorder-to-mp3
I am displaying a video with the html5 video element. The source is a pre-signed url from Wasabi s3. It works well on Chrome but it won't play on Safari. I did some research and it seems like this is usually due to the server not being configured to return a 206 code. However, I did check the server and it seems to support byte-range requests.
Here is the network tab. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, it seems like I usually get stuck on those minuscule problems. Turns out that Safari, unlike Chrome, doesn't like to play files without file extension. Adding ".mp4" to my files solved the problem...
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 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
I am using video.js to play mp4 video files.
It works fine in Chrome & Safari, but not in IE
Here is a link for a sample page:
http://www.shafan.co.il/gsPedia/Templates/Shafan/DisplayItem_NEW.asp?WordID=4485&Word=&CategoryID=143
The page is in Hebrew... Sorry... But you can clearly see where the video box is...
Thanks!!
check out the source on [http://videojs.com/](line 92). their video works in ie. i played a little with the plugin on localhost, and came across the same issue... try setting up the video plugin manualy (by running js code after video tag), as they did on their homepage (line 99). chears.