Playing .mov files in Web Plugin?

[gazchap]

Hi guys,

I have the VLC Web Plugin working in Firefox for .mp4 files, but the software I'm building also needs to be able to play .mov files.

These don't work for some reason, the play button briefly changes to Pause, and then flips back to the play symbol again and no video plays.

I've tried in Firefox and Chrome to no avail.

Does the VLC Web Plugin (downloaded today with VLC 2.1.5) support QuickTime .movs?

Thanks,
Gaz.

[RSATom]

Did you try play same file with VLC Player?

[gazchap]

Yep, it plays perfectly.

[RSATom]

you could try FBVLC - it has debug mode with logs...

[RSATom]

Oops, you don't need fbvlc. By default Vlc Web Plugins uses "-vv" flag. What OS do you use?

[gazchap]

Windows 7, with Firefox 32 and VLC 2.1.5.

How do I view debug logs?

[RSATom]

under windows you should use http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96647.aspx

[RSATom]

If logs verbosity will be not enough - then you could still try FBVLC with debug mode enabled - it uses "-vvv" in such case

[gazchap]

Ah-ha! Got it working.

These were the errors that clued me in:

[3492] main input debug: Creating an input for 'http://webdev/aenetworks/assets/shop/vi ... nal_031014 720.mov'
[3492] main input debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\gareth\AppData\Local\Temp'
[3492] main input debug: `http://webdev/aenetworks/assets/shop/vi ... nal_031014 720.mov' gives access `http' demux `' path `webdev/aenetworks/assets/shop/videos/History_Spring_Sizzle_45_Final_031014 720.mov'
[3492] main input debug: creating demux: access='http' demux='' location='webdev/aenetworks/assets/shop/videos/History_Spring_Sizzle_45_Final_031014 720.mov' file='\\webdev\aenetworks\assets\shop\videos\History_Spring_Sizzle_45_Final_031014 720.mov'
[3492] main demux debug: looking for access_demux module matching "http": 12 candidates
[3492] main demux debug: no access_demux modules matched
[3492] main input debug: creating access 'http' location='webdev/aenetworks/assets/shop/videos/History_Spring_Sizzle_45_Final_031014 720.mov', path='\\webdev\aenetworks\assets\shop\videos\History_Spring_Sizzle_45_Final_031014 720.mov'
[3492] main access debug: looking for access module matching "http": 20 candidates
[3492] access_http access debug: querying proxy for http://webdev/aenetworks/assets/shop/vi ... nal_031014 720.mov
[3492] access_http access debug: no proxy
[3492] access_http access debug: http: server='webdev' port=80 file='/aenetworks/assets/shop/videos/History_Spring_Sizzle_45_Final_031014+720.mov'
[3492] main access debug: net: connecting to webdev port 80
[3492] main access debug: connection succeeded (socket = 1172)
[3492] access_http access debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 404
[3492] access_http access error: error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Effectively, I had a space in my MRL which for some reason the VLC plugin didn't seem able to handle. All sorted now, though. Thanks.