Re: FF does not play .webm video file from server, but *does* play it as local file from disc

[J.O. Aho]

dave wrote:
> I have a .webm video file on disc. It opens and plays pefectly from FF
> useing file:/// etc However when try to play it from a server (I have
> no control over the server), then FF displays that same webm file as
> garbage (ascii pages of text). I uploaded the file as a binary file
> type using ftp.
> Any ideas as what the problem might be?

Have you checked the server is using the right headers when sending the data?

wget -S http://...

would give you some clues.


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//Aho

[J.O. Aho]

dave wrote:

> Thanks. Didn't know about wget (not expert user). I did use it and
> retrieved the file back to client PC (Windows). Played it locally with
> file/// etc and it worked fine. So the file on the server is the same
> as client. I don't really understand enought to know what is not
> working here. When I load a .jpg on the server (from FF) I see the
> picture. Click on a .webm file and get pages of ascii. Looks to me
> like some kind of file association that FF doesn't know about when
> getting the file from server. (?)

The question isn't if the file is different, the question is if the server
sends the right header for the file, for example for a standard web page you
get "Content-Type: text/html", for a jpg image you get "Content-Type:
image/jpeg".

So do you get "Content-Type: video/webm"? If you don't, then the server is
using the wrong content type for the file and those a browser will not be able
to play it properly.

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//Aho