I am trying to serve HTML5 video in MP4 and WEBM fomats. I cannot get all browsers to work though:
Browsers which support WEBM (Chrome desktop, Firefox desktop) play the videos fine.
Browsers which use MP4 are not working (IE, Safari, Android).
WEBM is being served as
video/webm
.MP4 is being served as
video/mp4
.
Minimal JSFiddle at: http://jsfiddle.net/#&togetherjs=5Ql5MmrV4j
Browser errors:
IE11: 11.0.9600.17126 / 11.0.9 KB2957689
Error: Unsupported video type of invalid file path
Android browser and Chrome Android:
No error, video just refuses to start
Sanity test - the following three values are equal:
Received file size:
curl <video URL> | wc -c
Actual file size:
stat -c %s <video file>
Server-specified file size:
Content-Length
HTTP header.
One of the videos in question is at:
MP4: http://hackology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hd720-24.mp4
Content-Type: video/mp4
Does not play in Chrome / IE11 / Chrome Android / Android Browser
Does play in VLC
FFMPEG encoding parameters:
-an -vcodec libx264 -s hd720 -flags +loop+mv4 -cmp 256 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp4x4+partp8x8 -subq 6 -trellis 0 -refs 5 -bf 0 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -movflags faststart
These were collected from deep searching on the best way to encode MP4 for mobile browsers. If I use
-an -vcodec libx264 -s hd720
then that video also doesn't work in browsers.WEBM: http://hackology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hd720-24.webm
Content-Type: video/webm
Plays in Chrome/Firefox
FFMPEG encoding parameters:
-an -vcodec libvpx -s hd720
The relevant HTML (classes, poster, etc removed):
<video preload="metadata" controls="controls">
<source type="video/mp4" src="http://hackology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hd720-24.mp4">
<source type="video/webm" src="http://hackology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hd720-24.webm">
</video>
JSFiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/#&togetherjs=5Ql5MmrV4j