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for IE9 I found that a meta tag was required to set the mode
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>
<video width="400" height="300" preload controls>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
Your browser does not support the video tag
</video>
Ended up using http://videojs.com/ to support all browsers.
But to get the video working in IE9 and Chrome I just added html5 doc type and used mp4:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video src="video.mp4" width="400" height="300" preload controls>
</video>
</body>
</html>
If it's still not working here's what may certainly be a solution: encode the mp4 with compression format H.264. If you encode it with format mpeg4 or divx or else it will not work on IE9 and may as well crash Google Chrome. To do that, I use Any Video Converter freeware. But it could be done with any good video tool out there.
I've been trying all solutions listed here and tried other workaround for days but the problem lied in the way I created my mp4. IE9 does not decode other format than H.264.
Hope this helps, Jimmy
Dan has one of the best answers up there and I'd suggest you use html5test.com on your target browsers to see the video formats that are supported.
As stated above, no single format works and what I use is MP4 encoded to H.264, WebM, and a flash fallback. This let's me show video on the following:
Win 7 - IE9, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera
Win XP - IE7, IE8, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera
MacBook OS X - Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera
iPad 2, iPad 3
Linux - Android 2.3, Android 3
<video width="980" height="540" controls>
<source src="images/placeholdername.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="images/placeholdername.webm" type="video/webm" />
<embed src="images/placeholdername.mp4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="980" height="570" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" autoplay="false"></embed> <!--IE 8 - add 25-30 pixels to vid height to allow QT player controls-->
</video>
Note: The .mp4 video should be coded in h264 basic profile, so that it plays on all mobile devices.
Update: added autoplay="false" to the Flash fallback. This prevents the MP4 from starting to play right away when the page loads on IE8, it will start to play once the play button is pushed.
Internet Explorer 9 support MPEG4 using H.264 codec. But it also required that the file can start to play as soon as it starts downloading.
Here are the very basic steps on how to make a MPEG file that works in IE9 (using avconv on Ubuntu). I spent many hours to figure that out, so I hope that it can help someone else.
Convert the video to MPEG4 using H.264 codec. You don't need anything fancy, just let avconv do the job for you:
avconv -i video.mp4 -vcodec libx264 pre_out.mp4
This video will works on all browsers that support MPEG4, except IE9. To add support for IE9, you have to move the file info to the file header, so the browser can start playing it as soon as it starts to download it. THIS IS THE KEY FOR IE9!!!
qt-faststart pre_out.mp4 out.mp4
qt-faststart is a Quicktime utilities that also support H.264/ACC file format. It is part of libav-tools package.
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