Video playback in IE9 seems not to work.

[flixflax]

I tried to play a m4v-File (exported by QuickTime on Mac for iPhone-Devices) but IE9 does not know how to play the file. There should be the flash fallback but it isn't.
The same occures when I try to play some mp4 files (not optimized for iPhone).

Could it be possible that the IE9 is not supported yet?

[etianen]

Could you give me a URL, or a piece of example code? IE9 supports native playback of m4v files, so it should have worked fine.

[flixflax]

I include the video tag like this:

<video id="frontpage-video" src="fileadmin/videos/volcano1.m4v" 
width="470" height="328" controls preload poster="fileadmin/images/poster.jpg"></video>

when I click the area of the video, nothing happens but IE provides a contextual menu that allows me to click play. When I click play then, nothing happens. The whole thing works fine in Safari, FF and so on. Even IE7 does play the Video (in Flowplayer).

[flixflax]

I forgot to add: the video on your demo page doesn't play either in IE9.

[etianen]

Internet Explorer 9 will only play MP4 files if it's configured to serve them using the mime type of video/mp4. There's a note about configuring Apache to server MP4 files correctly at the bottom of this wiki page:

https://github.com/etianen/html5media/wiki/Video-Formats

[etianen]

I've dropped a support request to GitHub to configure their CDN server accordingly.

[flixflax]

thanks a lot. I'm going to try this on Monday.

[etianen]

No problem. I've updated the demo page with the fix. Would you mind checking that it now works on your machine?

[flixflax]

I'll check this on Monday since I am Mac user (and happy not to use IE) and my Windows machine is in the office.

[flixflax]

Hi Dave,
it works very well on your demo site now. In my case I hat to change the line to fit .m4v suffix and it works as well. Thanks again :)