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Improving Mindat.orgVideo not starting
6th Mar 2015 20:16 UTCVolker Betz 🌟 Expert
I uploded a video.
http://www.mindat.org/photo-670318.html
Everything is fine, only the video is not starting.
What did I do wrong?
Volker
6th Mar 2015 22:39 UTCSteve Federico
6th Mar 2015 23:55 UTCWayne Corwin
You need to load your video to a place like youtube,, then provide a link to it.
7th Mar 2015 11:51 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,13,348358,348509#msg-348509
7th Mar 2015 13:07 UTCJohn R. Montgomery 🌟 Expert
You upload as you would a photo, but the video needs to be in mp4 format AND the extension must read as such...BTW when uploading put in category "OTHER PHOTO".
cheers
John
NB such vids are not applied to your photo count
8th Mar 2015 18:01 UTCJohn R. Montgomery 🌟 Expert
You upload as you would a photo, but the video needs to be in mp4 format AND the extension must read as such...BTW when uploading put in category "OTHER PHOTO".
cheers
John
NB such vids are not applied to your photo count
8th Mar 2015 19:21 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
8th Mar 2015 20:32 UTCJohn R. Montgomery 🌟 Expert
10th Mar 2015 23:20 UTCAmir C. Akhavan Expert
The videos of Volker and John are both on Mindat, I can download and view them.
Either by checking the URL in the page's source code or by using my Firefox "Ant Video Downloader" plugin that detects the presence of a video and offers to download it for me.
(I checked Volker's video a few days ago, it seems to have been replaced by a photo in the meantime).
It's possible the problems are specific to Firefox:
The buttons are responsive (java script works).
Firefox does support HTML5 video (as used here).
But due to licensing and patenting issues Firefox does not yet decode H.264 and AAC natively.
Chrome and Internet Exploder, and I guess Safari, too, do support playback of H.264.
MP4 is only a container format for video and audio content, commonly encoded as H.264 (also known as AVC) for video and AAC for audio.
Accordingly, Firefox users are still left out in the cold, unless they add and utilize operating system specific extensions for Firefox to play the video through them - a topic which I need to get a bit more into now :-/
So, if you have problems playing the video, which browser and operating system do you use?
11th Mar 2015 00:11 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
11th Mar 2015 00:43 UTCAmir C. Akhavan Expert
Actually, now that I think of it, I remember that the video that you initially uploaded some time ago did play in my browsers. Strange.
But I guess nothing in the code has been changed?
11th Mar 2015 01:06 UTCAmir C. Akhavan Expert
First time I used chrome ... I had to accept a EULA... brrrrr... :-D
Anyway:
Chrome HTML5 video with MP4/H.264/AAC (John Montgomery's video) works on my box.
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