.mp4 file not playing in chrome

I want to show a video on my website. I have created a .mp4 file and using the HTML5 video tag to add it to the html.

The problem is that it is not being displayed in chrome. I would also like to know how I can replay it again and again.

Romualds Cirsis

After running into the same issue - here're some of my thoughts:

due to Chrome removing support for h264, on some machines, mp4 videos encoded with it will either not work (throwing an Parser error when viewing under Firebug/Network tab - consistent with issue submitted here), or crash the browser, depending upon the encoding settings
it isn't consistent - it entirely depends upon the codecs installed on the computer - while I didn't encounter this issue on my machine, we did have one in the office where the issue occurred (and thus we used this one for testing)
it might to do with Quicktime / divX settings (the machine in question had an older version of Quicktime than my native one - we didn't want to loose our testing pc though, so we didn't update it).

As it affects only Chrome (other browsers work fine with VideoForEverybody solution) the solution I've used is:

for every mp4 file, create a Theora encoded mp4 file (example.mp4 -> example_c.mp4) apply following js:

if (window.chrome)
    $("[type=video\\\/mp4]").each(function()
    {
        $(this).attr('src', $(this).attr('src').replace(".mp4", "_c.mp4"));
    });

Unfortunately it's a bad Chrome hack, but hey, at least it works.

Source: user: eithedog

This also can help: chrome could play html5 mp4 video but html5test said chrome did not support mp4 video codec

Also check your version of crome here: html5test

I too had the same issue. I changed the codec to H264-MPEG-4 AVC and the videos started working in HTML5/Chrome.

Option selected in converter: H264-MPEG-4 AVC, Codec visible in VLC player: H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)

Hope it helps...

[Hmm...this thread is 2 years old, but the issue is still ongoing.]

Ok, I don't (yet) know the final answer, but maybe a few comments will help others chasing these issues.

Comment #1: MP4-container files have been around for YEARS, so what's allowed inside them could be almost any codec. So, get the 'mediainfo' cmd-line pgm and peer inside your MP4 container, so you'll know to mention the codec name that is inside.

MP4 files and MKV files are just CONTAINER files (see wikipedia), and you can put any one of many diff video codes inside of an MP4. (whereas, a Webm will likely have a VP8 or VP9 or VP10 video codec inside, I think).

Comment #2: Us Chromecast users use tab-casting (from a Chrome-tab) and one can do that by pasting a local file into a browser's tab by using a URL like:

file://C:/Users/David/The_Big_Lebowski(1998)--5mins--snippet.mp4

Whereas, one can also use video and source tags and reference a copy of the same file...termed "HTML 5" video.

I (mistakenly) thought they'd both render the same in any given browser, but they don't. So far, in Chrome at least, I'm finding cases where the "file://" URL will render, but the HTML-5 does NOT.

Food for thought.

This started out as an attempt to cast video from my pc to a tv (with subtitles) eventually using Chromecast. And I ended up in this "does not play mp4" situation. However I seemed to have proved that Chrome will play (exactly the same) mp4 as long as it isn't wrapped in html(5) So here is what I have constructed. I have made a webpage under localhost and in there is a default.htm which contains:-

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<video  controls >
 <source src="sample.mp4" type="video/mp4">
 <track kind="subtitles" src="sample.vtt" label="gcsubs" srclang="eng">
</video>
</body>
</html>

the video and subtitle files are stored in the same folder as default.htm

I have the very latest version of Chrome (just updated this morning)

When I type the appropriate localhost... into my Chrome browser a black square appears with a "GO" arrow and an elapsed time bar, a mute button and an icon which says "CC". If I hit the go arrow, nothing happens (it doesn't change to "pause", the elapsed time doesn't move, and the timer sticks at 0:00. There are no error messages - nothing!

(note that if I input localhost.. to IE11 the video plays!!!!

In Chrome if I enter the disc address of sample.mp4 (i.e. C:\webstore\sample.mp4 then Chrome will play the video fine?.

This last bit is probably a working solution for Chromecast except that I cannot see any subtitles. I really want a solution with working subtitles. I just don't understand what is different in Chrome between the two methods of playing mp4

Encountering the same problem, I solved this by reconverting the file with default mp4 settings in iMovie.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25131906/mp4-file-not-playing-in-chrome

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