How would you embed a static file with .m4v extension , M4V is a file format,
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="320" height="256" >
<param name="src" value="/static/example.m4v">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<embed src="/static/example.m4v" type="video/mp4" width="320" height="256" controller="true" controls="true" autostart="false"/>
</object>
The above example forces it to download.
http://django-embed-video.readthedocs.org/en/v0.11/index.html only works with online sites like youtube, few others.
I was struggling with this same issue. I pretty much copied the code from http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody.
Then made sure to create .htaccess file with the following:
Also, I'm using an older version of django (1.6.5) for my project and I have my videos stored at my MEDIA_ROOT and have the MEDIA_URL also set in the settings.py so that the source of video looks like: