Video not playing in Firefox

Well, we solve one problem and uncover another. Like the other Kyle, your video is encoded as AVC, which is similar to but not H.264. You’ll have to re-compress your video to H.264 if you want it to work in every browser.

Stupid question, but what’s the best way to do this? I cannot get FFMPEG on my shared server…as I’ve tried but my hosting company won’t allow it?

This is something you should do before you upload. I recommend Handbrake for all your encoding needs.

Ok, i know handbrake. Thank you again for your help. I will compress the video this evening and let you know.

Great plugin and great support. Thumbs up!

Hey Kyle,

So I used handbrake to compress it into h.264 (i think) it ended up as an m4v file and it still doesn’t work in firefox.

What am I doing wrong?

Sorry to keep bothering you with this. I just don’t get it.

Thanks,

josh

Now we’re back to JavaScript conflicts. It’s still caused by fitvids. Somehow part of the method I’m using to disable fitvids is being blocked by the mobilemenu jQuery plugin that’s also part of your theme. I don’t know enough about JavaScript to figure out how it’s doing it. If you can remove fitvids from your theme it will solve all your problems.

By golly Kyle it now works on all four of the major browsers: Chrome, Firefox, safari and IE.

Thank you for all your help!

Kyle,

I upgraded to the latest version of your plugin and re-coded my page to use your plugin. Things are working fine as far as I can tell even in Firefox. There are pauses on play but I imagine that’s because the plugin has to download the video and try to play it simultaneously. Good work my friend. Thanks for your support.

Ron

Hello
I have just came across the amazing plugin and I am experiencing a similar issue
I am using oxygen theme, and work with firefox, the plug in only run once it is just uploaded and then it doesn’t work anymore! but it works really well on safari. I have deactivate similar plugin x videos and now only use this and another one x photos, is it something to do with my computer or any update I should do?
here is the page I m struggling with
https://www.giovannicalemma.com/w/video/

hope you can help me out to sort this out

I also have issues when use other format like webm , it does’t allowed me to upload as it says that Error video.webm exceeds the maximum upload size for this site.
is it something in the config I have to change?
how about if I want to use an HD file then?

Use something else, not many use firefox anyway.

But the problem should be solved later this year. Firefox has given up its fight against H.264 and accepted that it is here to stay, hence it should be supported by the end of the year.

Firefox still has a 30% market share so we still have to figure out how to make it work even if it is annoying.

Like the other people on this thread, your theme includes fitvids.js, which breaks playback in Firefox and prevents the video from resizing responsively. I have implemented a method of disabling fitvids which doesn’t seem to work on your site. The best solution is to edit your theme and remove fitvids.js. I don’t know enough about your particular theme to tell you how to do it, but it shouldn’t be too difficult.

The maximum PHP upload size is set by your host. To get around the file size limitation you can upload using FTP and then use the excellent Add From Server plugin to bring it into the WordPress Media Library.

My video doesn’t show up, let alone play, in any browser.

When I upload a screenshot for my featured image, THAT shows up, but still nothing for the video itself.

Here’s the code I used on the post:
[video width="426" height="240" src="https://empowereveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/newsltetter-email2.mp4"][/video]

Ideas?

Hi alexanderblake, the [video] shortcode is built in to WordPress and does not use my plugin’s video player.