I have been trying to embed a short 8 second video on my site. This fails to embed although I have tried a number of different file types eg avi, mov, mp4 etc. I have also tried different codecs eg vp8, vp9, av1 all to no avail; the same message box appears “This plug-in is not supported”. Is it not possible to upload short videos with Infinity Free?
I know. I deleted the video. I have now uploaded it again, you will see the message on the site. I have tried all the codecs mentioned in the initial post and various file types, always the same message on live site.
Use mp4 (it has wider support - different OS and browsers)
Codec H.264
or
H.265 (newer browsers that are not older than 5 years)
of course, make sure that the file size is not larger than 10MB (limit on hosting)
and you will have to wait a little longer for loading because the video extensions are slowed down here (the server uses throttling) because this is website hosting and it is allowed to have video only as an intro or background on the website
Have tried the html 5 solution with MP4 but the video does try to load but does not succeed and get a black screen where the video should be.
Perhaps this will be of help.
My current original plug-in codebase is: http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715
Does this need updating and can it be?
I have tried uploads on Opera, Edge, Chrome & Firefox browsers but get same result. The videos are not an essential component of the site, more ‘nice to have’ but I would like to solve the upload issue if possible.
Thanks to all. I only used the the MP4 file to see if the HTML 5 solution worked and as I said it did not. With the plug-in I use at the moment the only valid file extensions that can be uploaded are: avi, asf, asx, wmv, wmx, ra, rm, ram, *.qt, *.mov, *.movie and as demonstrated these do not work when live; these have always worked on other servers. MP4 is not an option and is not a valid extension for upload on the plug-in I have.