How to play the html5 video in IE8 Browsers

jesse picture jesse · Aug 3, 2011 · Viewed 80.1k times · Source

I have develop a MVC3 Application in that i have use html5 video controls when i run the application it is playin Chrome but when i try to play in IE8 Browser it doesn't play the video just it show the white page only...How to play the video in all Browsers please help me..

Here is my code what i did in my page

<video controls="controls" poster="http://sandbox.thewikies.com/vfe-generator/images/big-buck-bunny_poster.jpg"
    width="640" height="360">
    <source src="../../Videos/Nenu Nuvvuantu - Orange - MyInfoland.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
   <%-- <source src="http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.webm" type="video/webm" />--%>
    <source src="../../Videos/Nenu Nuvvuantu - Orange - MyInfoland.ogv" type="video/ogv" />
    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf"
        width="640" height="360">
        <param name="movie" value="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf" />
        <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
        <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
        <param name="flashVars" value="config={'playlist':['http%3A%2F%2Fsandbox.thewikies.com%2Fvfe-generator%2Fimages%2Fbig-buck-bunny_poster.jpg',{'url':'../../Videos/Nenu Nuvvuantu - Orange - MyInfoland.mp4','autoPlay':false}]}" />
        <img alt="Big Buck Bunny" src="http://sandbox.thewikies.com/vfe-generator/images/big-buck-bunny_poster.jpg"
            width="640" height="360" title="No video playback capabilities, please download the video below" />
    </object>
</video>

Answer

OverZealous picture OverZealous · Aug 3, 2011

There's a nice standard way of setting up HTML5 video with flash and other fallbacks.

Please see Video for Everybody for a nice generator of HTML5 tags with fallback options.

Alternatively, here's another great library, with JS/CSS code to make it work consistently.