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I. Ramshaw
I. Ramshaw
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I am using Website X5 Pro (v12) and having trouble playing video.

I created a page and dropped the video object, then select my MP4 source from disk.

The player control box is showing ok. When I preview the page I see the video player box and controls but only an icon for AVG player in the box and no video. When I click the play icon, nothing happens.

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CARLOS AMARAL
CARLOS AMARAL
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If you try to recode the video to another codec?

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Gabriele P.
Gabriele P.
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...if you export, before, in youtube site your video, and into your project put just a link for it, I am sure, your site is not heavy and the video will works fine...

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CARLOS AMARAL
CARLOS AMARAL
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Gabriele, the problemof whatyou sayis thatin many companiesget usedto blockyoutubeandfacebookfor example in thecompanyproxy.In that caseyou could notseethevideos.

Usingvideoson your serverthere are more options,andyou make surethat they will alwaysbe visible.

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Gabriele P.
Gabriele P.
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...ok; reading the online guide of website x5, the best supported video player seems to be Adobe Flash Player; your problem could be using AVG player, instead...

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I. Ramshaw
I. Ramshaw
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I found if I select Firefox as browser in preview, it worls fine. But not using the native previewer or chrome.

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Gabriele P.
Gabriele P.
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...have you exported online your site? could publish a link?

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John S.
John S.
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Hello David

The best coding to use, is H-264. (it's still a mp4 )

I have found out, that this gives the fewest problems in different browsers.

Kind regards

John

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I. Ramshaw
I. Ramshaw
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This is very frustrating.

If I select firefox browser when previeing site locally, all works fine. But, the built-in preview browser will not play the video.

I have adobe flash installed in my browsers.Also made sure the video format is H-264.

The built-in browser shows the orange and white VCL player icon instead of the video. Even if I change my local machine default video app to windows media player, I see this icon. Could this be a file associate problem with mp4 extensions? Others must have this working ok, how are yours set up?

Thanks

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I. Ramshaw
I. Ramshaw
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FIXED THIS!

I uninstalled the VCL player on my machnie and now the preview works ok with built-in video.

Thanks for your support.

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