Posting MP4 files

Yes, the two things to check are the syntax you are using to embed the MP4, and the path to the MP4 file. This syntax should work:

<video controls>
  <source src="/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video> 

Replace /video.mp4 with the path to your video file, with your blog folder as root

Does that help? If you share a link to the specific post, I'm happy to investigate further

Thanks that worked. I had everything but ‘controls’ in the opening video tag.

Great, please let me know if anything else comes up

Hello, just checking in here. I may be doing something wrong, but I've tried both this syntax, as well as the traditional embed syntax, to show an .mp4 video. However, in Firefox I get a "No video with supported format and MIME type found"; in Brave, the video doesn't populate. Any troubleshooting suggestions? FYI here is the link: https://www.mindfulclover.com/goldie-snippet

For what it's worth, I can see it on Safari and Arc (Chrome) on the Mac. Cute dog! Reminds me very much of our late Peekapoo dog doing the same thing, she loved it.

Ray

I think it's complicated to get a single video to work in all browsers. For now, I'd consider embedding a video from Vimeo, YouTube or elsewhere. These services will convert the video into all sorts of formats so they play for everyone, regardless of browser.

I do plan to add proper support for this kind of conversion into Blot at some point but I hope you can understand that this feature is complicated. For what it's worth, it's easy to embed a YouTube or Vimeo video on Blot: just paste its URL into your post.

Thanks both for the quick response! And thank you―I think she's quite cute, when she's not gnawing on my hand...

Great, please let me know if anything else comes up

If you prefer not to use Youtube, etc. like me you can use a service like Bunny Stream at https://bunny.net/stream/ It's very cheap IMO for small videos like yours.

They provide customizable embedding code that works across all browsers.

Here's videos using them on my blog:

https://alongtheray.com/tagged/videos

Ray

Hi My initial experiments with video suggest that adding material to Blot with a YouTube link is just so easy and neat it's definitely the way to go for me. It's miles easier on here than it was on Postach.io Q