Why is Win XP Pro SP3 computer getting error "No video with supported format or MIME type found".
I have a Windows XP Pro SP3 Computer, and I get the error, "No video with supported format or MIME type found." when I attempt to view videos in the browser. I used to be able to view the videos, but about 3 months ago they stopped working and I started receiving the above error message. What could be the cause for that? Thank you so much for your time and assistance! God bless you!
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Daffodil5 said
The "paperwishes.com" site (card making supplies) plays product videos for some of its products. A blue box displays the word "Play" next to the item. When I clicked on this blue box last Spring, it would always play. Now it is hit & miss. At times it will offer to play via MP4, but seldom. Their "webisode" will not play (which played last Spring, as well). Can't understand what has changed: Google update leaving Windows XP in the past??
The videos on site may be playing in a HTML5 player and not using the Flash Player Plugin as one video I cheacked was using HTML5 player when I right-click on it. Actually it turned out the video link was a Youtube video and YT uses the HTML5 player when possible and falls back to Flash Player if needs be if they still support such.
With some work you may be able to get HTML5 video to work in Firefox on the old EOL WinXP.
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On Windows Vista and later, Microsoft offered a component called Media Foundation that Firefox uses to decode MP4 videos. Unfortunately, that was never released for Windows XP, so on XP, Firefox cannot decode MP4 videos.
Some sites work around this by showing videos in a plugin (such as Flash or VLC), but other sites do not code in an alternative and you just get the error message. For example, Twitter.
There isn't a universal solution for this, but some sites sometimes can be tricked into giving you an alternative format. Are there particular sites where you have this problem? Feel free to post links to sample pages that show this error.
Also, could you let us know which boxes you have in blue vs. red on YouTube's HTML5 test page -- on XP, the ones with H.264 (used in MP4 video) are usually red and most of the others are blue:
Sometimes I get this. I just download the clip.
Red boxes: H.264, Also, MSE & H.264
Blue boxes: HTMLVideo Element
Media Source Extensions
WebM VP8
MSE & WebM VP9
The "paper wishes.com" site (card making supplies) plays product videos for some of its products. A blue box displays the word "Play" next to the item. When I clicked on this blue box last Spring, it would always play. Now it is hit & miss. At times it will offer to play via MP4, but seldom. Their "webisode" will not play (which played last Spring, as well). Can't understand what has changed: Google update leaving Windows XP in the past??
The site may have started using a newer video format / codec that doesn't work on XP.
wishes.com is just a search page. Not a list of products. What is the full link you are using?
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Daffodil5 said
The "paperwishes.com" site (card making supplies) plays product videos for some of its products. A blue box displays the word "Play" next to the item. When I clicked on this blue box last Spring, it would always play. Now it is hit & miss. At times it will offer to play via MP4, but seldom. Their "webisode" will not play (which played last Spring, as well). Can't understand what has changed: Google update leaving Windows XP in the past??
The videos on site may be playing in a HTML5 player and not using the Flash Player Plugin as one video I cheacked was using HTML5 player when I right-click on it. Actually it turned out the video link was a Youtube video and YT uses the HTML5 player when possible and falls back to Flash Player if needs be if they still support such.
With some work you may be able to get HTML5 video to work in Firefox on the old EOL WinXP.
Ha ha, is there an echo in here? I see James posted this overnight.
Daffodil5 said
Red boxes: H.264, Also, MSE & H.264
Unfortunately, yes, this is normal on Windows XP. It is starting to get limiting.
I saw a discussion of a way to trick Firefox into using a different add-on to decode the video but haven't tried it myself. (Someone needs to rewrite this in a simpler way at some point.)
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I have found that if I right-click on the gray box (telling me the video clip cannot be played), I find an option to "View video" which takes me to download mode, then offers me an MP4 box to play the video clip! Yea! This will usually play the clip! And, yes, I have found that when the webisodes will not play, I can find them in a YouTube subscription account & can view them there! Thank you for your many suggestions! Consider yourselves to have been sent a homemade tx card!
It started today for me on Facebook.
Windows 10 Firefox 50.1
sircurly said
It started today for me on Facebook. Windows 10 Firefox 50.1
This thread was about WinXP and was solved.
Please start your own thread here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new