html5 video issue with chrome

This is a solution I found That worked for my case,

First, embed the video in your html:

<video id="videoId" width="100%" autoplay loop>
  <source src="main.webm" type="video/webm">
  <source src="main.mp4" type="video/mp4">

Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

Then detect if the Browser is chrome:

var isChrome = !!window.chrome; 
var isIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false;

If its chrome, replace the video with webm version. (For those who haven't faced the problem themselves: if you embed both mp4 and webm , chrome will not play any of them, so you have to embed "webm" only)

if( isChrome ) {
$("#videoId").replaceWith($('<video id="videoId" width="100%" autoplay loop><source src="video.webm" type="video/webm"></video>'));
}

And as for IE: In my case I replaced the html5 video with an image:

if( isIE ) {
$("#videoId").replaceWith($('<img id="videoId" src="img/video.jpg" />'));
}

I had the same problem and couldn't solve it with any of the proposed solutions, either above or in other threads (updating Google Chrome's version or disabling Chrome's hardware acceleration didn't work either.)

In the end what has solved it for me has been converting the video file to a different mp4 format.

It turned out that I had converted the original mp4 with an MP4 VIDEO encoder, when I should have done so with an H.264 Normal encoder.

Here's the full code:

<video width="320" height="240" controls>
  <source src="video/Ruby.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
  <source src="video/Ruby.webm" type="video/webm" />
  <source src="video/Ruby-iPad.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
   <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="320" height="240" id="Ruby" align="middle">
            <param name="movie" value="video/Ruby.swf" />
            <param name="quality" value="high" />
            <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
            <param name="play" value="false" />
            <param name="loop" value="false" />
            <param name="menu" value="true" />
            <!--[if !IE]>-->
            <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="video/Ruby.swf" width="330" height="295" id="Ruby">
                <param name="movie" value="video/Ruby.swf" />
                <param name="quality" value="high" />
                <param name="bgcolor" value="#cccccc" />
                <param name="play" value="false" />
                <param name="loop" value="false" />
                <param name="menu" value="true" />
            <!--<![endif]-->
                <img src="video/Ruby.jpg" alt="No video playback capabilities" />
            <!--[if !IE]>-->
            </object>
            <!--<![endif]-->
        </object>
</video>
<p class="caption"><em>Ruby</em> (fragment), ICF Hastings 2013.</p>

The code above is an adaptation of the "Video For Everybody" method. You'll find more info at http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/video-for-everybody-html5-video-with-flash-fallback/

I use an old version of Wondershare Video Converter but you can do the same job from free online services such as http://video.online-convert.com/


Make sure that yout have HTML5 doctype:

<!DOCTYPE html>

This fixed the problem for me.

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