HTML5 video works in Firefox but not IE

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HTML5 video works in Firefox but not IE

Hi. The HTML5 video player (JW Player) on this page works fine in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, but not IE: http://bit.ly/9mR6Wy

If you scroll through the carousel component, you'll notice the video's width gets "crushed" on IE and the text next to it, visible on the other browsers, isn't displayed. The video slides are 1 and 5 in the carousel component.

What am I doing wrong? Your help is much appreciated.

Are you surprised? What version of IE?

burkestar 2010-09-22 14:08:37

Is this an answer?

Thomas Stock 2010-09-22 14:14:08

I'm testing on IE9 Beta + 7 and 8.

Alex 2010-09-22 14:29:38

+1 A:

Try with IE9 beta.

Felix Guerrero 2010-09-22 14:13:30

That's the main one I've used. The JW Player library is supposed to auto-detect and show Flash for non-HTML5 browsers.

Alex 2010-09-22 14:27:25

+1 A:

Internet Explorer doesn't support HTML5 video. Some form of HTML5 video may make it into IE9, but until then you're out of luck.

worpet 2010-09-22 14:14:22

IE9 Beta supports the HTML5 <video> tag w/ H.264.

calvinf 2010-09-22 17:38:20

+1 A:

Video JS is a video javascript library that seems to work on all major browsers including IE (HTML5 in IE9, fallback to Flash in IE6-8). They have a demo on the site you can test out.

I'd also recommend looking at the Dive Into HTML5 Video article. It has a technical description of the challenges of using the new tag and discusses methods to make it work cross-browser. These techniques are what is being used by Video JS and other libraries.

calvinf 2010-09-22 17:41:08

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