Video embed not playing in Chrome on Android

  • I have the following video that I’ve uploaded to my WP website – https://tinyurl.com/yxhapah9

    I exported it using Adobe Media Encoder and then compressed it using Handbrake before then adding it to a WP page using the built-in media embedder.

    The video works fine on desktop and my Android tablet, yet my Android phone has a lot of trouble playing it (sometimes it plays it, but most of the time it won’t load)

    However, I can view the video just fine on my phone if I view the file directly as per the above link.

    To make things even more confusing, I sometimes have better luck trying to get the video to play in the media player if I use Incognito mode on my phone.

    I would just assume that this might be a bug with the WordPress media player, but I’ve also tested a different video file (one I got off a stock site) and that worked fine… this is despite me also compressing it with Handbrake.

    Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?

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  • That’s a very strange issue. Could it be the codec of the video you are trying to upload? Keep in mind that MP4 is a video container, and the codec should be H.264 aka MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-4 Part 10

    More info about it:

    https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/encoding

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    (@pealo86)

    Thanks, I think I figured it out in the end though.

    Pretty sure it was because I had too many videos on the page. There were a few <video> elements hardcoded into the page template at the bottom… I removed these and then the embed seemed to work fine (so far!).

    Perhaps my phone has a limit to how many videos it can show at one time.

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