IE10 not playing a video when using the <video&

Question

I have a webpage with a tag on it with the following markup:

<video width="456" height="360" controls autoplay>
    <source src="Movies/Intro.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
    <source src="Movies/Intro_H264.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"'/>
    <source src="Movies/Intro_H264.ogg" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'/>
</video>

If I visit this page in IE10 it renders the video player but with an error message that reads: "Error: unsupported video type of invalid file path"

But what's odd is if I right-click on the video box and choose, Copy video URL, and then open a new tab in IE and paste in the direct URL to the video file (Movies/Intro.mp4) it plays in the browser without issue.

Also, I can visit the page using Chrome and it plays the MP4 video from the webpage without issue. All that to say, I don't think there's any issue with the video file itself or the encoding, but why is IE 10 not playing the video when it's in the tag, but it is playing it when requesting the video directly?

Any insights?

Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same issue with IE 11 and the problem was the content type was application/octect-stream as stated by csmith. I was serving my videos from Azure storage and apparently that is the default content type.

You can change the type with Azure storage or using Azure api as shown in the post

Set Content-type of media files stored on Blob

Here is a guide for people on Amazon cloud (I did not test it)

Changing content type for Amazon