http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html

If you think of doing a followup, can you suggest how mix this solution without a pop-up window for the video (like here: http://videolightbox.com/ ).

I’m trying to come up with a similar look, but for locally served .mov files. Ideally, the popup window would be client-size sensitive so that smaller screens get smaller versions… but I’ll go with whatever works!

thanks.
/shawn

I’m afraid HTML5 just isn’t ready for prime time yet considering all these hoops us developers have to go through to get it to work.

Kind of like the “old days” when you had to code exceptions for IE6 which I mercifully ditched for good last year.

And I found this helpful for enabling autoplay on iPhones and iPads - http://www.codeblog.co/getting-autoplay-working-on-ios/

I just retested and it’s working fine for me. maybe try clearing your cache?

It looks like the the iPad’s version of Safari was crashing because of an issue with iPads and Typekit as described here. I removed the Typekit classes and retested and it works fine now.

Thanks!

If you want complete control over the look&feel of the player, flash seems a good solution. Good for you to know that the (de facto standard) JW Player, or at least as of version 5, supports h264 encoded quicktime movies.

Cheers!

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you wrote: Since IE doesn’t support HTML5 video, you can make the fallback whatever you want. You can make it flash or whatever - I only used a quicktime file because I didn’t feel like encoding the video into yet another format.