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CommCulture R.'s avatar
CommCulture R.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Streaming .mov files

Hi We have a site where we are trying to stream some of our videos from dropbox. We have been able to stream .mp4 files using the following code <p><video width="640" height="480" controls=...
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SwanCobb's avatar
SwanCobb
Collaborator | Level 10
10 years ago

Both play fine for me. The HTML in your second video is bad... Instead of IMG\_1642.MOV just have it be IMG_1642.MOV

The other problem could be that to play quicktime videos, you may need the QuickTime Player.

You're better off remuxing it so that it is an MP4 container using a free command line tool such as FFMPEG. Using the following command line, I was able to produce a MP4 that is better supported than QuickTime player without changing the encoding inside. It remain h.264 and aac:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0naxhbkmui3gki/Richard%20Southern%20-%20IMG_1642.mp4?dl=0

 

ffmpeg -i img_1642.mov -codec copy img_1642.mp4

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