HTML5 video error handling

Question

I need to tell, whether video cannot be played (\"x\" sign is shown in browser).

This code does\'t works. \"onerror\" event will never be fired under Firefox

Answer 1

"onerror" is not a valid event type for

Use "error" instead.

document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].addEventListener('error', function(event) { ... }, true);

For a complete list of events for go here: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_audio_and_video_in_Firefox