So in our application, a video preview is displayed after it is uploaded. On my computer, however I'm getting a thumbnail that says 'plugin missing' and upon further inspection it says to install the quicktime plugin.
However, the link provided by Chrome to install the plugin leads to a page on apple's website which says 'quicktime plugins don't need to be installed anymore.'
Some details:
Video Extension: .mov
Codec: H.264, AAC (which may be what is in question here)
Chrome Version: Version 39.0.2171.71 (64-bit)
OSX Mavericks
How do I go about making videos play on my machine, as well as making sure that they show up in the production environment?
Google Chrome has removed support for plugins like Quicktime. Most likely you are also using Chrome 64bit. The Quicktime Plugin was only for 32bit.
HTML5 supports videos out of the box so the browser developers of IE, Firefox and Chrome do not see any more use for such plugins.
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I'm developing with puppeteer in node on windows 10.
The problem is that when I open a site playing an mp4 file the browser says me that it is not supported.
I found this package: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree; but it is for linux!
How can I play .mp4 in Chromium with puppeteer on windows?
The Puppeteer Documentation has an answer for this:
Q: What features does Puppeteer not support?
You may find that Puppeteer does not behave as expected when controlling pages that incorporate audio and video. (For example, video playback/screenshots is likely to fail.) There are two reasons for this:
Puppeteer is bundled with Chromium--not Chrome--and so by default, it inherits all of Chromium's media-related limitations. This means that Puppeteer does not support licensed formats such as AAC or H.264. (However, it is possible to force Puppeteer to use a separately-installed version Chrome instead of Chromium via the executablePath option to puppeteer.launch. You should only use this configuration if you need an official release of Chrome that supports these media formats.)
Since Puppeteer (in all configurations) controls a desktop version of Chromium/Chrome, features that are only supported by the mobile version of Chrome are not supported. This means that Puppeteer does not support HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).
Therefore, in order to screenshot video playback in Puppeteer, you will need to set the executablePath as a separately installed Chrome executable:
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
executablePath: '/path/to/Chrome',
});
Here is my config:
- Mac 10.9
- Firefox 28-29
My iframe containing the Vimeo video stays black and displays this error message:
< This video can't be played with your current setup. >
It works fine in all the other browsers.
Markup iframe:
<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/83913899?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=111" width="960" height="540" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="0" kwframeid="1"></iframe>
Link to page:
http://www.monakimprojects.com/projects/uniqlo-campaign#slide-02
PS : A friend told me it works fine for Firefox 29, Mac OS X 10.6.
So it looks like it is an OSX problem.
VIMEO support answered :
You need to have flash installed to watch Vimeo videos in Firefox on
OS X because they don't support h.264 playback.
Ah hum yes ok I just reinstalled my Mac a few days ago thats why...
But could they make their message more precise no?
Instead of a silly joke and
This video cannot be played with the current setup
I would have prefer
This video needs flash player installed to be played
Agree VIMEO team?
Thx.
Can't comment yet because of lack of reputation, but there's something I think is worth sharing.
Chrome and Firefox have disabled Flash across the board. Users would have to update or reinstall Flash. This makes it worse for the situation mentioned in this post. Not so much for Chrome since it plays without using Flash, but definitely a problem for Firefox on Mac, which users may not know an update is necessary to view the Vimeo video.
Google and Mozilla pull the plug on Adobe Flash: Tech giants disable the program on browsers following 'critical' security flaw
I have Ubuntu 14 and the solution that worked for me was to install Adobe Flash!
Seems like Firefox displays a plugin with an "X" in older versions of Firefox (i.e. - any version below Firefox 4) and refuses to default to the flashplayer.
I understand that Firefox 4 is supported by mediaelement.js in that it can play ogg video. What is the intended 'handling' of video by mediaelement in older versions that don't support ogg video or html 5?
HTML5 is not an standard for old browsers like FF3.X. The options are:
Update to FF5 (released a few days ago as stable).
Put a flash fallback. This is a flash solution for old browser which not accept HTML5 format, but can play videos throught flash, like YouTube.
For more information about the second option, you can enter to VideoJS. This is a good plugin based on javascript to play videos with HTML5+CSS with a flash fallback.
Good luck.
Am I the only one experiencing this issue? I'm using the html5media library and the test page they provide no longer plays in Firefox 3.6.3, though it plays on the latest Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE. On FF 3.6.3, it shows the video and the audio with large X through them. I'm using this library on my site and noticed the issue as well. I'm not seeing any errors in the error console.
My guess would be that the ogv version of the video (the version Firefox uses) is not encoded correctly (or at least not in a way that Firefox recognizes), so when Firefox goes to play it, it fails. It works in other browsers because they make use of the mp4 format, which is encoded correctly. Other html5 video plays in my install of Firefox 3.6.3 so I don't believe it is a bug in Firefox. What are you using to encode the ogv format of the video on your site?
Check out the answer here.
I just upgraded my mac to Firefox 3.6, and now neither of my TIFF Viewing plugins work.
in 3.5, If I had Quicktime on, then I'd get the tiff, viewed through quicktime. If I had Quicktime disabled, but my own plugin, AcellViewTIFF enabled, then I would get ViewTIFF viewing the TIFF. Since I'm the author of ViewTIFF, That's how I had it most of the time.
After I upgraded to 3.6, if ViewTIFF is enabled, I just get a blank space. if ViewTIFF is disabled, no matter whether or not Quicktime is enabled, it goes straight to preview.
Has anyone seen this?
(This is programming related because I'm writing AccelViewTIFF, and if the framework for plugins changed, I need to fix it...)
Edit to add:
This is an NPAPI plugin, I've removed or commented out the main, so I don't think that this is a CFM plugin problem.
I looked at Mozilla's "basicplugin" (located in mozilla-1-9-1-f15a2686e9a6/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/mac under the standard mozilla source) and it works. I compared all of my functions to the functions in BasicPlugin, and the only function that it has that I don't is the drawPlugin function, which appears to do the actual work. All equivalent functions have the same interface.
When I remove or disable AccelViewTIFF, Firefox downloads the image and gives it to preview. When I enabled it it does nothing. This tells me that Firefox IS seeing that I have a plugin, but it's not running it for some reason.
There are no errors either in Firefox's error console or in any of the console logs I can see...
any ideas?
For the record, the problem was that this is an OLD plugin that still uses Quickdraw routines. evidently, they didn't make it into 64b, and so they don't work in FF 3.6.
Lets hear it for progress.
Are you using Leopard or Snow Leopard?
TIFF files open fine with the QuickTime 7.6.3.0 plugin with Firefox 3.6.
Go to Firefox -> Preferences -> Applications. Search for "tif" and then you can choose how Firefox handles files with the image/tiff MIME type. Set it to the plugin of your choosing. QuickTime should work (is for me on Snow Leopard).