Video tag does not play in Chromium (works in Chrome & other browsers)

[Shachar Weis]

<script>

 function failed(e) { alert("Error: "+e.target.error.code); }

</script>

<video controls onerror="failed(event)">

  <source id="videoSource" src="video_62.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>

</video>

<video controls onerror="failed(event)" src="video_62.mp4">

</video>

This is my code. Both video tags work in Chrome. 

In Chromium, the first does nothing - it will not even attempt to load the video. The <source> tag seems to be ignored. 

The second throws an error code of 4 - MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED

Any ideas ? What am I missing ?

Thanks.

[Christian Biesinger]

Chromium does not support H.264 (mp4) videos.
http://www.chromium.org/audio-video

-christian

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[Shachar Weis]

Thanks. 

I changed it to OGV and the second video tag works.

Does Chromium support the <source> tag inside the <video> ?

[Christian Biesinger]

It does - did you also change the type attribute?

-christian

[Shachar Weis]

I tried ogv but turns out that ogg is what works.

Thanks for your help !

[Shachar Weis]

Is there any way to get Chromium to play MP4 files? With a 3rd party plugin? OGG has poor support across the platforms.

[Christian Biesinger]

I don't believe so, unless you compile it yourself with special flags
(and buy a patent license from MPEGLA). Why do you need MP4 support in
Chromium, instead of just using Chrome?

-christian