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I'm trying to open a simple HTML5 document containing MP4 video to no avail. Why the same document opens nicelly in, e.g., Chrome?

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Small sample code (with changed delimiters to avoid parcing) which opens in Chrome but not im FF5.0: 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title></title></head>
<body>
<video controls src="videofile.mp4">
</video>
</body>
</html>

The above code file and the mp4 video file are in the same folder.

Small sample code (with changed delimiters to avoid parcing) which opens in Chrome but not im FF5.0: <pre><nowiki><!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title></title></head> <body> <video controls src="videofile.mp4"> </video> </body> </html></nowiki></pre> The above code file and the mp4 video file are in the same folder.

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Firefox doesn't support MP4 via the video tag.

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Firefox doesn't support MP4 via the video tag.

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Thanks for your helpful answer. Please forgive my *duh* behavior. I'm not used to HTML5 tags yet. I followed your links and the glitch became obvious. But as I found out, Firefox has an amazing alternative behaviour: if you click with the right mouse key on the *gray x-ed screen of death* and choose the "Show video" option, then the (non-supported) .mp4 file opens with Windows Media Player, my default application for .mp4 files. So, even if Firefox does not support directly .mp4 files, one still can watch the video with the standard application... Awesome. I'll just add some text im my document to guide Firefox users. Cheers!