Looks like the Bug Report forum has actually become a techical support area. I want to improve upon user experience with a few special media formats that are think are best for web video and not controlled by the Monopoly starting with MP4. In order to facilitate and make this more qualified than a bug report, I shall offer suggestions and code where possible.

I posted a bug report a while back about the site not embedding mp4 files, and that was fixed, but there is a problem with playback on Firefox. The embed element's attributes : TYPE="image/x-macpaint" and SRC="QTMimeType.pntg" are a problem. In order to make this work on Linux/Firefox/mplayer-plugin, Windows/Firefox/Quicktime, and Windows/IE/Quicktime:

  • drop the (MIME) TYPE attribute (not necessary)
  • set the SRC attribute to the path to the media resource
  • drop the qtsrc attribute (not necessary to enforce Quicktime player usage only!)

See this node for a sample MP4:
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/25994