Browser downloads video stream instead of playing it

Question

I'm trying to stream video from IP camera to browser using ffmpeg and ffserver but if I try to open stream in any browser it starts downloading it instead of playing. I've tried to display video using <video> tag but that doesn't work either: Here is the code I used:

 <video width="800" height="600" controls>
        <source src="http://10.10.7.19:8090/cam4.mp4" type="video/mp4">
 </video>

The stream works fine in vlc, it is H.264 stream. ffserver shows buffer underflow errors when I try to view it in chrome. When I try to open it in firefox I get No video with supported format and MIME type found error on video element.

How do I make it work? Also, are there any tools for debugging video streams on Chrome or Firefox (console doesn't show any errors) ?

Answer 1

The server must set the correct Content-Type header.