<video> plays in other browsers, but not Safari

Question

We have an MP4 video on our site; it plays fine in IE9+, Firefox, Chrome, and Chrome on mac. However, on Safari, the video doesn\'t play at all - it does trigger a \"stalled

Answer 1

Safari requires webserver to support "Range" request header in order to play your media content.

https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/CreatingVideoforSafarioniPhone/CreatingVideoforSafarioniPhone.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006514-SW6

For a legit "Range" request response, your webserve need to return status code "206".