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no video with supported formate and mime type found

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interestingfellow
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I am able to view videos on all but 1 website: http://www.start-american-sign-language.com/free-sign-language-asl1.html When I view that page, the video box only shows the x with "no video with supported formate and mime type found" being displayed.

I have updated to the most recent palemoon (25.3.0) and have the following plugins installed DRM 9.0.0.4503 Shockwave flash 16.0.0.305 Silverlight 5.1.30514.0 VLC Web Plugin 2.2.0.0 Windows media Player Dynamic Link LIbrary 3.0.2.629

I have cleared my cache and cookies, and am unable to view the video in question. If I go to https://www.youtube.com/html5, it indicates that I have an operable Webelement player and Web VP8, and all others are exclamation points.

Does anyone know why I can't watch the (mp4) video(s) in question? I have turned up no viable solutions using the forums or google.

Thanks!

I am able to view videos on all but 1 website: http://www.start-american-sign-language.com/free-sign-language-asl1.html When I view that page, the video box only shows the x with "no video with supported formate and mime type found" being displayed. I have updated to the most recent palemoon (25.3.0) and have the following plugins installed DRM 9.0.0.4503 Shockwave flash 16.0.0.305 Silverlight 5.1.30514.0 VLC Web Plugin 2.2.0.0 Windows media Player Dynamic Link LIbrary 3.0.2.629 I have cleared my cache and cookies, and am unable to view the video in question. If I go to https://www.youtube.com/html5, it indicates that I have an operable Webelement player and Web VP8, and all others are exclamation points. Does anyone know why I can't watch the (mp4) video(s) in question? I have turned up no viable solutions using the forums or google. Thanks!

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cor-el
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This happens when there is no support in your Windows XP version to play any of the media file formats that the website offers with the HTML5 media player (i.e. not a Flash player is used, but a video tag). That are MP4 files with type="video/mp4"

  • VLC shows: Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)

You might be out of luck on Windows XP and your only option would be to use an external media player and paste the links in its location field.

interestingfellow
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Well darn. Thank you for the help! (no, really).

To anyone reading this post with the same type problem, as of today, there isn't really a work around for it...

interestingfellow
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BUT WAIT!!! If I copy the video url and post it right into the address bar, I can watch it (VLC cone comes up, and then the video starts playing....)

http://files.start-american-sign-language.com/ASL1LessonVideos/Unit2_Numbers_1-10.mp4

cor-el
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You can try this bookmarklet to see if that works with the VLC plugin: 

javascript:(function(){e=document.querySelectorAll("video");for(i=0;E=e[i];i++){V=E.querySelector("source[type=\"video/mp4\"]");if(V){S=V.src;N=document.createElement("object");N.type="video/mp4";N.data=S;N.width=E.width;N.height=E.height;E.parentNode.replaceChild(N,E);}}})()