Help getting vide.js to work with IE8 and FF

JavaScript
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I’m looking for a little js guidance with this:
http://www.videojs.com/docs/setup/

This code I’m currently using plays the video.js player in IOS, IE10 & Chrome, but not IE8 and FF

   <script _V_.options.flash.swf = "http://theurl.com/video-js/video.js.swf"
</script>

<script videojs.options.flash.swf = "http://theurl.com/video-js/video.js.swf"
</script>

<video id="_1200k.mp4" class="video-js vjs-default-skin"
      controls preload="none" width="640" height="264"
      poster="[var.base_url]/[var.thumb_file]"
      data-setup='{"example_option":true}'>
      <source src="http://theurl.com/uploads/Yr7fGNOH0ell3Ml_1200k.mp4" type='video/mp4' />
</video>

I’d like help getting it to work in IE8 and FF. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

2

Hi there,

As mentioned in my previous answer, you might also want to consider including a webm version and/or an ogv version of your file, depending on which browsers you want to support.

Currently you are only including your film in mp4 format and Firefox does not support this.
Here’s a compatibility chart: http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html#what-works
To convert mp4 into webm/ogg format I recommend Firefogg

As for IE 8, it doesn’t support the <video> tag, so it will fall back to Flash.
This code is invalid and will very probably be the reason it isn’t working:

<script videojs.options.flash.swf = "http://theurl.com/video-js/video.js.swf"
</script>

If you can provide a link to a page where this isn’t working, then I don’t mind taking a look at you.

Hope that helps.