how to play videos in .avi file format in chrome?

Question

Technically It was possible to play .avi files by loading an embedded object for a external player directly in the HTML. Now chrome deprecated that capabitilities and the

Answer 1

There are only a few file video formats which can be played in most browsers. Chrome probably does not want to support non-standard formats and thus pollute the Web with incompatible content.

Here are the video formats supported by various browsers:

+--------------------+----------------------+-------+-----+
|      Browser       |         MP4          | WebM  | Ogg |
+--------------------+----------------------+-------+-----+
| Internet Explorer  | YES                  | NO    | NO  |
| Chrome             | YES                  | YES   | YES |
| Firefox            | YES                  | YES   | YES |
| Safari             | YES                  | NO    | NO  |
| Opera              | YES (from Opera 25)  | YES   | YES |
+--------------------+----------------------+-------+-----+