.ogg video not playing in firefox

JP Silvashy picture JP Silvashy · May 3, 2010 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

We're just getting started with html5 video, and cannot seem to get .ogg files to play in Firefox, any tips? Here is the source we are using:

<video width="640" height="360" poster="http://video.thewebreel.com/episode_001/episode_001.jpg" controls autoplay autobuffer>
  <source src="http://video.thewebreel.com/episode_001/episode_001.ogg" type="video/ogg" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'/>
  <source src="http://video.thewebreel.com/episode_001/episode_001.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>

The live example can be seen here:

http://thewebreel.com/2010/05/02/episode-1.html

However we are totally baffled, everything seems exactly right.

Answer

Galen picture Galen · May 3, 2010

I uploaded your .ogg to my server suspecting it was a server issue and it's working fine on my server

I'm guessing it's because your web server is replying with

Content-type: binary/octet-stream

Try adding the mime types to nginx...

Open up the Nginx mime type configuration file, eg: /etc/nginx/mime.types

Add these lines after the last video mime type

video/ogg                             ogm;
video/ogg                             ogv;
video/ogg                             ogg;