HTML5 Video Problems with IE9

  • Is any one else having problems with video in IE9? I was using a flash fallback implemented with Joshua Eldreidge’s Flash Video Player plugin. With IE9 both the HTML5 video and the flash play simultaneously. There is only one image, but two soundtracks, one a few seconds behind the other. I also tried the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin. It worked — except for the popup windows I manage with Garrett Grimm’s simple popup plugin. With these windows, I can get no video at all to play.

    Everything was working great until IE9 came along.

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  • Hmmm wish I could help more with this one, but I’m not familiar with IE9. Are you sure that the SPP (simple popup plugin) windows are only having problems showing the video in IE9? Have you tested that in other browsers?

    -Garrett

    Thread Starter bobchatelle

    (@bobchatelle)

    The videos — both popup and regular — work fine in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and IE8. (IE8 of course doesn’t recognize HTML5 video tags.) Right now I have a workaround where the video tags don’t get generated if the browser is IE. (My video tags are generated via shortcodes.)

    Thread Starter bobchatelle

    (@bobchatelle)

    I discovered that the problem only occurs if the underlying Flash video is set to autoplay. IE9 should be ignoring the underlying Flash but for some reason it doesn’t. I can get around the problem with some complicated browser sniffing. But I’d like to find a simpler solution.

    I’m digging this up because I have the same problem.
    I’m not using wordpress, this is occuring on a website I coded on which I need html5 video with flash fallback to both autoplay (not simultaneously tho…). I’m using swfobject to embed the flash video player.

    bobchatelle have you find a fix ? I’d like to know about your “complicated browser sniffing” if that’s ok with you.

    Thread Starter bobchatelle

    (@bobchatelle)

    I finally got everything working to the client’s satisfaction. This was some time back so I will have to dig into the code.

    Thread Starter bobchatelle

    (@bobchatelle)

    I just looked at my code, which was even more complicated than I remember. I just attacked the problems by trial and error. The two big problem browsers for me were IE and Safari. Finally, I set things so that the HTML5 video code would not generate for IE if the version was less than 9 and for Safari unless it was for an iphone.

    To generate the flash code I used the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin from Foliovision.

    I seem to recall that the Safari problem was that the autoplay would not start until the entire video had loaded.

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