[ale] What's the magic in getting a video file created?

Fri Dec 26 21:04:58 EST 2014

So ... the most used video format these days used online is h.264+aac in an mp4
container.  I think it is important to be xhtml with a DTD, not just a plain
<html> tag.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp has example html which should work.

On 12/26/2014 10:00 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I'm using SimpleScreenRecorder to record a short demonstration of a web site.
> 
> I've built a half dozen combinations of containers and codecs that all worked
> fine with FF and Chrome on Linux but never found the right combination that any
> browser on Windows 7 or 8 could view. I'm very unfamiliar with video formats,
> but have learned a bunch, albeit not enough.  I can't seem to find the answer on
> Google.  I know that it can be done, after all Youtube does it.
> 
> I suspect Youtube might be using flash.
> 
> Anyway I thought for sure HTML5 would work on IE 11, but no, it says H.264 isn't
> a supported codec. Huh?  Neither is mp4.  Nor could I get any variety of avi
> working.
> 
> So if someone knows the magic, please tell me.  I'd keep trying things but I
> don't have a MS system with anything later than IE 8 so I have to ask others for
> help and they are getting tired of it.  :( For that matter, so am I.  ;)
> 
> For the HTML5 test I used the <video> element:
> 
>     <body>
> 
>         <video src="vid8x.mp4" id="movie" controls height="1024" />
>     </body>
> 
> file vid8.mp4
> vid8.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 1
> I think it was the H.264 codec.  I don't know how to determine that from the file.
> 