Skip to main content
M
Mindtrick
Participating Frequently
March 2, 2014
Question

Internet Explorer Unsupported video type or invalid file path? HTML 5

  • March 2, 2014
  • 3 replies
  • 25642 views

Hello.

First I would like to salute all you people out there that answer questions in these forums. Thank you! They have been more helpful than my Web Design class.

Here is my problem. I cannot get Internet Explorer to play my video files. It says Unsupported video type or invalid file path. I have added the .htaccess file for MIME types, and included .mp4, .ogg, and .webm. I have also included a smaller resolution for mobile. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Also if anybody could explain to me in an idiot proof way how to add flash support step by step for this site that would be great. I have searched all over the internet, read many tutorials, used the free code makers, and I still cannot get flash to work.

This is my first website, please go easy on me!

Site address is www.mindtrickvp.com 

Thanks everybody

    This topic has been closed for replies.

    3 replies

    hans-g.
    hans-g.
    Legend
    March 2, 2014

    ... and another thing, are you sure you need

    min-width: 1920px;

    min-height: 1080px;

    Although many users now have large screens, shouldn't you better use a percentage like 100% for that, so your website adapts the size of itself?

    M
    MindtrickAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    March 2, 2014

    es73- I will give that way of adding Flash a shot. Do I have to add any additional files along with the code? Or should I just add the code to my index and it will work?

    Hans- If I add width= 100%, how do I position the video to stay fluidly centered and sized? I like the width 100%, and I have been messing around trying to get the video to center correctly, but I havnt found a reasonable solution yet.

    Also when I preview the files through Dreamweaver on Internet Explorer, the video plays correctly.

    Thanks you all for replying. I really appreciate the help.

    hans-g.
    hans-g.
    Legend
    March 2, 2014

    Hello,

    nice to see you, I'll give back your greetings, good luck! To your question:

    Did you try out your website in Live view?

    Did you try out it without inserting the codecs? Only like this:

    <!--begin video-->

    <video controls>

    <source src="YourVideo.mp4" type='video/mp4' />

    <source src="YourVideo.webm" type='video/webm' />

    <source src="YourVideo.ogv" type='video/ogg' />

    </video>

    <!--end video-->

    Hans-Günter

    M
    MindtrickAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    March 2, 2014

    Also, I removed the codec tags and the videos still act the same. Still unsupporte by IE10.

    hans-g.
    hans-g.
    Legend
    March 2, 2014

    Hello,

    I made a pure DW file, what means I only inserted your "Demo.mp4" in two variation, AND I can't believe it of myself, BUT in my FF 26.0 the both work like a charm, whilst my IE 11 failed. Please have a look here:

    http://hansgd.de/DWTest/_mind/indexVid.php

    Hans-Günter

    es73
    es73
    Participant
    March 2, 2014

    Perhaps an obvious question, but is the Flash plugin installed on the browser you're using? Its not as 'universal' as it used to be?

    If you wantt o add flash fallback on a video (this would be only needed if the user was on an old browser and had flash installed) add the following code after the 4 video tags you have so far:

    http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/client/how-to-embed-video-using-html5.html

    scroll down to the section  "Graceful Degradation" goes over how to add a flash video to the stack.

    M
    MindtrickAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    March 2, 2014

    I dont understand how the file plays fine when I preview it through IE on Dreamweaver, but when I try to go to the page outside DW it does not work. I added MIME types through htaccess. IS there something else I am missing?

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices