Video won't play in Firefox

Hi Steve

Your Video played fine in both Safari and Firefox (3.6) for me. It also played using Chrome though the interlacing was much more pronounced.

Carl

The videos display for me in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but it is worth noting that QT movies are slow to load in Chrome. This surprises me as Chrome is noticeably faster than Safari in general.

Try displaying the movie in its original size.

Original size = 320 x 240
Displayed size = 484 x 363 + 16 for the controller.

Or use even numbers : 480 x 360.

Or make the original movie larger.

Every bit counts.

I have the same issue

http://www.onlinetvad.com/S&ETour/

I was wondering whether to switch from .flv to H264 / mov formats - i want the widest compatibility.

Flash seemed universally supported, but unless from YouTube flash does not stream to iphones / ipads / etc.

So I made a vid, exported from QTPro posted it in Apple format and it plays fine on pure Apple kit (Mac pro and Safari - or iphone ipad) but NOT on a mac running other browsers i.e. Chrome or Firefox - nor very well on any PC

I am pretty sick of this format war over online video - it is prejudicing the success of my fledgling business and has wasted a lot of my time.

I publish all my movies in .m4v file format. Either with QTPro/X "Save for Web" or from iMovie or straight to .m4v in QTPro/X.

Some I convert to to and from flv/wmv with VisualHub/iSquint.

And wmv made on a PC I either convert on a PC with [Format Factory|http://www.formatoz.com> or on a Mac as described above.

They are displayed in Flash Video players, QuickTime and HTML 5.

And you don't need .flv or wmv. Flash/Silverlight players support .m4v files.

Same movie, multiple displays.

And with the advent of HTML 5 I use OGG audio and video.

http://www.wyodor.net/iFrame/
http://www.wyodor.net/_Demo/html5/HTML5Video.html
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/ImageWidget/ClickMovie.html
http://www.wyodor.net/MoreEmbed/
http://www.wyodor.net/iWebBlogTest/Wyodor1/archives/2009/05/entry35.html

I explore all the possiblities and pick the one that suit my needs.