Ie11 downloading mp4 instead of playing

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. How to convert dynamic media URL to octet stream — giveJob. So is there a way to force chrome to play a file that has an octet-stream header? Aniket Warey Aniket Warey 9 9 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. When I try to access a mp4 video url in IE 11 it prompts the user to download the video instead of playing it in the browser. How to make the video stream in IE 11 instead of prompting the user to download. Kindly help. I am using Windows 10 and IE Any link with file in end will be downloading, except in modern browsers this option has changed to autoplay, since a player has been embeded in modern browsers.

Thats why opening video or audio file with most popular extensions like. Anyways would recommend to let IE stay on its own way and not use it for malware insecurities and vulnerabilities. I've got my videos encoded in both H. All good. This is the most basic version of my code in the production site I'm running it with VideoJS on top, however whether it's there or not, this problem occurs so I've removed the code for it from this example :. But Internet Explorer refuses to play ball.

When I load up the page in IE 11, I just get a video decoding error:. An error has occurred in the decoding of the media resource, after the resource was established to be usable. I can't see anything wrong there; it looks exactly like every reference I've found online says MP4 video should be for maximum compatibility - H.

Can anyone see anything wrong with what I'm doing? I'd love to be able to post an example video, however I can't due to privacy reasons. All the same any help would be greatly appreciated. When I in desperation sought out an actual physical machine running Windows This was the same with IE11, Firefox, and Chrome. Even with Windows Media Player after I downloaded your file and saved to disk.

My Win 8. So I suspect that you have mistakenly overlooked that you have some special codec installed in your computer. That is why I did not reply, for courtesy.

However, since I am now replying. I did notice your server does something I did not expect. It serves your file with two Content-Types. It does not seem to bother any browsers, but is this what you intend? I also did notice something unique from MS.

There are two proprietary DLNA. I don't know what they mean. Very bad. I also visited Wikipedia to see. They explain MS is one permanent Board of Directors member there. I have changed the video file in question. Access Point? What is considered good DSL line attenuation? Outlook cannot connect to your mail server? How to access the signal levels of my cable modem behind a Wi-Fi router?

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