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JSBach
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Reputation: 4747

HTML5 video tag not playing in Firefox

I have a MVC/.NET project and I set the mimetype in my webconfig:

<staticContent>
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".m4v" mimeType="video/m4v" />
</staticContent>

Then I added this video tag to my webpage

<video width="640" height="385" controls="controls">
      <source src="/videos/sample_mpeg4.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
      <object data="/videos/sample_mpeg4.mp4" width="640" height="385">
        <embed src="movie.swf" width="640" height="385" />
      </object>
    </video>

And I open this webpage in Firefox, but I get the message "no video with supported format and MIME type found". If I open http://localhost/videos/sample_mpeg4.mp4 Firefox opens the download window, so it means the video path is correct.

I searched in Stackoverflow and google and this brought me to my current status, but now I am stuck. Can someone help me troubleshooting this issue?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3755

Answers (1)

Josh Mein
Josh Mein

Reputation: 28655

Firefox does not support the MP4 format within its video tag. The main reason why is the royalty fee attached to the mp4 format.

Check out Media_formats_supported_by_the_audio_and_video_elements directly from the Mozilla crew or the following blog post for more information:

http://pauljacobson.org/blog/2010/1/22/firefox-and-its-limited-html-5-video-support.html

Upvotes: 2

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