How to Solve mp4 Video File Cannot be Playbacked in a Web Broswer

Problem: mp4 video, “vcom-showing-connected-then-disconnected.mp4”,  in https://mobitek-system.com/blog/2017/11/vcom-showing-connected-then-disconnected/ cannot be playbacked.

 

Cause: encoding used is not supported by web browser even though the “vcom-showing-connected-then-disconnected.mp4” video can be played in Windows Media Player.

 

Suggestions: for HTML5 in general, the optimized video encoding would be H.264 for .MP4 or WEBM for .webm (refer to https://help.encoding.com/knowledge-base/article/html5-video-format-conversion-support/)

 

2 Solutions:

  1. use VLC to convert, refer to the guide in http://www.pavtube.com/vlc-convert-avi-to-mp4.html; or
  2. use https://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-mp4  to convert “vcom-showing-connected-then-disconnected.mp4” using “H.264” codec

After conversion, the video can be playbacked in web browser.