

But it does support multiple sources and will play the first one it supports.įurther, it doesn't appear that swf or flv are supported by any browsers, since they are totally Adobe and require Flash Player, but the following should work around that: īe aware that the above had. Short answer, Firefox doesn't support mp4, as it's not open source. Web platform, according to Mozilla, Google and Opera.

H.264 is currently not a royalty free format, it is unfit for the open All the necessary licenses can be bought from MPEG LA. The MPEG media formats are covered by patents, which are not freely Support for the format is deprecated in Chrome, and Chromium does not Firefox and Opera do not support the format. The MPEG container format with the H.264 video codec and either theĪAC audio codec or the MP3 audio codec is supported by InternetĮxplorer and Safari. embed video in html page and make it play any video file in local driveįrom Mozilla's page on browser-supported audio/video formats: for playing videos in HTML5 you only need the video tags and src.

webm (free webm video converter is a free and good converter) For Firefox and Chrome you must convert the video first to. That already should make the video run in Safari and IE (for mp4). So when your application is called video_homepage then put a folder in it with videos. The video must be somewhere inside your application directory in order to play. Make sure to include the video source directly in the video tag like: Ĭoncerning the video src-path. HTML5 works just by having the video tags.
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