How to play wmv files in html5 video player

Question

Is there any way to play .wmv files using html5 video player?

Answer 1

Mediaelement.js player documentation says, support to wmv and mov, but so far i have not seen any positive or success comments for these formats.Formats like wmv and mov are proprietary, so to play video user need to explicitly install browser based plugins. Latest version of Firefox doesn't support wmv directly, there is a work around.To support mov format,user need to have quicktime player install in the system.Go for players that supports Flash fallback for non HTML5 browsers.

WMV plugin for firefox

Firefox Documentation:

Answer 2

Heh, you would think IE would support it as WMV was a Microsoft format and IE is a Microsoft application. Interesting how they don't seem to mix.

Regardless, I hope that WMV will be supported in the future. Technically speaking, all current video formats except for OGG are proprietary. OGG is the only open platform codec.

Answer 3

That's not true. Wmv files CAN play in IE with the windows media player object.

Example:

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" width="480"
        height="360" codebase="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/">
   <param name="Filename" value="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/HP-iPaq-614.wmv">
   <param name="AutoStart" value="true">
   <param name="ShowControls" value="true">
   <param name="BufferingTime" value="2">
   <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
   <param name="AutoSize" value="true">
   <param name="InvokeURLs" value="false">
   <embed src="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/HP-iPaq-614.wmv"
          type="application/x-mplayer2" autostart="1" enabled="1" showstatusbar="1"
          showdisplay="1" showcontrols="1" 
          pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" 
          CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,0,0" width="480" height="360"></embed>
</object>

You might need to install the Windows Media Player plug-in for your browser (if it is still available for your browser)

Credit: See http://www.walkernews.net/2008/08/17/windows-media-player-how-to-embed-wmv-file-in-html-code/ for a more thorough explanation.

Answer 4

There is no way. No browser (currently, if ever) supports playing wmv files. You will have to convert it into a format that browsers know how to play.

Answer 5

Sorry, but actually isn't supported in google chrome, safari, Opera and firefox...

You can use any programs to pass WMV to MP4 files, supported :)

I hope this reply has helped you a lot!

Answer 6

AFAIK, the only way to play WMV files in a browser without resorting to embedding WMP is using Silverlight.