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stevep34633534
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February 6, 2023
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Dreamweaver; video‘s audio

  • February 6, 2023
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Weird, a video uploads, previews alone just fine in server's (iPage) file manager, but NOT on it's designated web page. The frame is there, the controls, but no video or audio (no poster either).... What have I done?   www.ginazollman.com/pages-GinaZ/biography.html

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Jon Fritz
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Jon FritzCommunity Expert
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February 6, 2023

Something else to watch for, given the use of CamelCase in your file names...

Make sure your file names exactly match the links, right down to the case structure. Most servers are CasE SeNsiTiVe and will view a file called MyGreatVideo.mp4 as totally separate from MyGreatvideo.mp4.

Your local system is NOT case sensitive, and will treat MyGreatVideo.mp4 and MyGreatvideo.mp4 as the same file, allowing it to preview as expected.

Use all lowercase alpha-numeric file names. Avoid any special characters, and use underscores or hyphens instead of spaces.

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    stevep34633534Author
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    February 7, 2023
    thanks for the CamelCase note…..

    I think at this point, it might a CODEC issue…. hard to double check on that however.

    Steve
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    osgood_
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    February 7, 2023

    NO...something is not right with your server. 

     

    Its acting weird. If you go to the link below it throws a 404 error page:

     

    https://www.ginazollman.com/video-audio_GenaZ/specialglimpses_926x680.mp4

     

    If you go to:

     

    https://www.ginazollman.com/specialglimpses_926x680.mp4

     

    It takes you back to the original link BUT instead of playing the video it downloads it, which is not correct. You're server seems to be misconfigured and downloads mp4 files instead of playing them - I would contact your host.

     

    As a test throw the below  <video> into your page. If it doesnt work then your server is incorrectly set up. If it does the problem lies elsewhere with your own mp4.

     

    <video width="320" height="240" controls>
    <source src="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    February 6, 2023

    When I click on the MP4 video file, I'm getting 404 Not Found on Server. Did you upload the video?  Did you put it in your server's root directory?

     

    <video width="982" height="720" title="Gina At Vitello's" poster="/images-GinaZ/AtVitellos_600px.jpg" controls="controls" >

    <source src="/video-audio-GinaZ/SpecialGlimpsesofHerEveningatVitello's11_28_09-[onlinevideoconverter.com].mp4" type="video/mp4" />

    <source src="https://youtu.be/LnGg3Ca6W_M" />

    </video>

     

    Also, remove the 2nd source on YouTube.  It won't play anyway because YouTube requires the <embed> script containing an <iframe> like this example:


    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hUNdNgoT34A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe

     

    Hope that helps.

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    stevep34633534Author
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    February 7, 2023

    Thanks so much for your kind advice and sage perspective on this.... Couple things, I don't want viewers to leave the site to watch YouTube videos. Embedding much preferred, duh.     So I did different source converter thing. The conversion worked fine, the poster shows fine on the website, but a static image, controls yes, no actual video or audio..... Could  there be something in the initial DOCTYPE?

     

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>biography Gina Zollman</title>
    <style type="text/css">
    <!--

     

    In the interim, I did a WC3 scan, dd some code deletes and probably wosened things rather than helped. 

     

    http://www.ginazollman.com/pages-GinaZ/biography.html

     

    2) should video files on the server... be located in the root (like keeping index.html company? Alone, not in a like my audio-visual folder?

    thank you

     

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    osgood_
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    February 7, 2023

    The mp4 file is not in the location which the link points to:

     

    https://www.ginazollman.com/video-audio-GinaZ/specialglimpses_926x680.mp4

     

    It just returns an error page. If it was then you would see the video playing.

     

    Have you tried a different video as a test because it could be that your convertion is in the wrong codec.

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      osgood_
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      February 6, 2023

      Poster image is present. Are you sure that you have the correct link to the video because when I try and access it directly I get a '404 Page Not Found Error' - have you actually uploaded the mp4 file?

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