html5 video is not playing mp4 error “Invalid Source”?

Question

I am trying HTML5 video tag and I have downloaded a Microsoft sample and trying to run it but a strange thing is happening, and it is that it plays video coming from a URL (

Answer 1

I had the same problem

For Internet Explorer

I used FormatFactory, setting up AAC encoding for audio and H264 for output for the mp4 format, in "High Quality and big size"

For Google Chrome

I converted my original video to the webm format thanks to Free WebM Video Converter (make sure you uncheck everything that would like to install ads).

It took a long time but then it worked in Chrome.