HTML video player IE / FF

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HTML video player IE / FF

How can you display a video (mpeg or avi) with controls (play, stop, fullscreen) in both internet explorer 7 and up and firefox 3.0 and up. A lot of the examples online only works for one of the other. And I can't seem to find one that does it all.

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I dont want a solution which needs me to export my videos to youtube or google video or others.
I don't to convert the video to another format, such as flv or mov (avi and mpeg are widely used, there should be a solution where you don't need to convert them).

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There are many ways you can do this, however, you will probably have to convert your video files to .flv and use a free media player like the Longtail Player or the OS FLV player (Google them) to embed them on your webpage.

Alternatively, you can wait for HTML5 to come out; this will take a while for major browsers to accept but they have an easy <video> tag.

Brandon Wang 2009-08-13 19:41:53

Edited : I don't want to change the format of the videos to flv (because of the time needed to convert every video, loss of quality, etc.)

Silence 2009-08-13 19:59:00

HTML 5 doesn't allow script triggered fullscreen

David Dorward 2009-08-13 20:13:27

It actually doesn't take that long to convert to flv, and it's something we ALL have to deal with. In fact, Youtube and all video playing websites out there all convert to FLV.

Brandon Wang 2009-08-14 02:12:31

Yeah you're right. I will go with this. Thanks.

Silence 2009-08-16 16:03:14

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Try this one: http://camendesign.com/code/video%5Ffor%5Feverybody

Filip Navara 2009-08-13 20:03:43

On internet explorer 8, the page won't load correctly and the videos seem to be in a .mov format...Other edit : No conversion at all. (sorry for not mentionning this clearly ealier)

Silence 2009-08-13 20:12:52

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