<video controls="" autoplay="" tabindex="0"><source type="video/mp4" src="pird2.mp4"></source></video>
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Re MP4 and Firefox: Firefox supports only Ogg in Video tags because the MP4 license was too expensive. See this article.
Re autoplay: I'm not very familiar with HTML 5, but you don't seem to be setting the autoplay property, are you? It probably would have to be something like
autoplay="autoplay"
or simply
autoplay
to work.
Pekka
2010-07-23 16:30:50
@Pekka, first, it's not the cost. The MP4 patents are not available under a GPL-compatible license at any price. Second, latest Firefox also supports [WebM](http://www.webmproject.org/), an efficient new open standard codec released by Google. Finally, autoplay is a boolean attribute, so it is true when it is present (even with empty value).
Matthew Flaschen
2010-07-23 16:36:58
@Matthew re the license, cost is at least part of the issue: The Mozilla Foundation considered licensing the codec, but turned it down due to the multi-million dollar investment it would have been (and of course the license problems that part of the software would have brought with it, you're right in that). See weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/… Great to know about WebM, looks interesting. Re the attribute: if boolean attributes work anything like in HTML 4, autoplay="" *will* turn it off.
Pekka
2010-07-23 18:14:09
how can i turn autoplay on? Which format should i use, that it works in iPad and Firefox
Ploetzeneder
2010-07-23 18:16:20
@Pekka, for [HTML 5](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#boolean-attribute), "The presence of a boolean attribute on an element represents the true value, and the absence of the attribute represents the false value. If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the attribute's canonical name." So `autoplay=""` and `autoplay="autoplay"` are both right.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-07-23 23:01:49
but they dont work
Ploetzeneder
2010-07-24 05:25:10
A:
Here is a great site for HTML5 Video information: Dive Into HTML5
Jase in ATL
2010-07-27 02:29:15