Thread: Need help concerning MP4 videos on my site

Hi Guys,

I was displaying such code to display videos on my site

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="490" width="854">

<param name="src" value="http://www.domain.com/clickhere.mp4">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="target" value="myself">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<param name="href" value="http://www.domain.com/movie-preview.mp4">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime" height="490" width="854">

<embed src="http://www.domain.com/clickhere.mp4" height="490" width="854" autoplay="false" type="video/quicktime" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" controller="false" href="http://www.domain.com/movie-preview.mp4" target="myself"></embed>

</object>

it offers me that the video is only uploaded when the visitor click on the "clickhere.mp4" (1s video).
Everything works fine for several videos.

Now I'm just trying to use smaller videos to save bandwith with the following codes.

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="380" width="640">

<param name="src" value="http://www.domain.com/click640.mp4">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="target" value="myself">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<param name="href" value="http://www.domain.com/movie-preview2.mp4">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime" height="380" width="640">

<embed src="http://www.domain.com/click640.mp4" height="380" width="640" autoplay="false" type="video/quicktime" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" controller="false" href="http://www.domain.com/movie-preview2.mp4" target="myself"></embed>

</object>

With the first code the quicktime plugging displays the video while uploading (once 10-15s are available) with the controller showing download progress.
But with the second code the video only appears once completely downloaded, so the visitor could think there's a problem with it and leave the page before getting it.

If you think you could help I could PM, two URLs with such videos.

Thanks for your help

Just putting back the size of the movie to 854, I get the same problem.

Is my problem due to the way today mp4 file has been coded, and not due to my <object> or <embed> code ?
I never have such problems with some other 10 mp4.

Thanks for your comment.

Did you encode it with the h264 codec?

Hi Mefo,

I don't really know, videos come from Playboy.
They offer several sizes.
The fact is that the first time I change the size I got the problem so I first think it was my code.
As I get the same problem with the size I'm used with, now I think the problem comes from the mp4.

Another argument is that these mp4 that don't play as I want on my site don't work with "Next Video Converter", a soft I use to reduce video framerate to 15 and save bandwith.
Is there a soft that could help me knowing if there's a difference in codec between videos displaying fine and those don't displaying as I want ?

Thanks for your reply tat2jr but two days after my troubles, all videos provided by playboy were back to normal.
I assume they have try a different encoder and came back to the previous one.