Ogg (theora / vorbis) playback in Firefox 3.6

Question

I have this html5 code, with a MP4 for Chrome (working), an OGG for Firefox (failing) and the same ogg via a java applet for Internet Explorer (working):

<video width="848" height="480"  controls="controls" autoplay="true" >
            <source src="vernissage_cpal_2009.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
            <source src="vernissage_cpal_2009.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
            <applet code="com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class" archive="http://theora.org/cortado.jar" width="848" height="480">
                <param name="url" value="vernissage_cpal_2009.ogv" /> 
            </applet>
 </video>

Firefox display a gray box with a X inside it. The file "vernissage_cpal_2009.ogv" also plays well inside normal media player, like VLC.

Answer 1

Use "video/ogg; codecs=theora,vorbis" as your mime type and Firefox will play it back happily.

Answer 2

I had a similar issue, trying to embed ogg audio, where it was playing in FF, but not in chromium.

I found I was missing a tag, type audio/ogg. It now plays. Here is the code:

    <object width="300" height="42">
    <param name="src" value="tonystheme.ogg">
    <param name="type" value="audio/ogg">
    <param name="autoplay" value="true">
    <param name="controller" value="true">
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
    <embed src="tonystheme.ogg" autostart="true" loop="false" width="300" height="42"
    controller="true" bgcolor="#000000"></embed>
    </object>

Granted, this is not working with the new html5 code, but, it did make it so the file would play.