OT: How to make this simple html menu work?

[Bob Elzer]

"No video with supported format and MIME type found.

If you are getting this error, your video is probably not in mp4 format,
while you can link any video file, html5 will only work with certain videos
formats. It might be named mp4 but you'll need to check.

You can still right click and copy link location and then and then paste
that into VLC open network stream menu


On Sat, May 9, 2020, 4:49 PM Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Thanks Brian, but I had read that page and tried to
> implement everything suggested there. Couldn't get
> any of it to work. The article describes doing this
> on a windows box and I'm on Linux.
>
> <li><a href="C:\Videos\splash.mp4">Splash 3</a>
> <li><a href="file:///C:\Videos\splash.mp4">Splash 4</a>
> <li><a href="file://///server/folders/x/x/splash.mp4">Splash 5</a>
>
> The code I shared in my original question did use
> similar syntax to what the article suggests, but
> it doesn't work. The closest I got was a result
> that showed the following message:
>
> "No video with supported format and MIME type found."
>
>
> -----------
> May 9, 2020 12:41 am, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I believe this page has a well worded answer to your question:
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18246053/how-can-i-create-a-link-to-a
> > -local-file-on-a-locally-run-web-page/18246357
> >
> > Brian Cluff
>
> -----------
> > On 5/8/20 11:14 PM, Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >
> >> How can I get the simple html menu
> >> (example code shown below) work to view mp4 videos
> >> from a menu link on my local computer in the same way that I can view
> >> jpg images (and when all the same files are uploaded as at this link:
> >>
> >> https://upquick.com/viewpix/
> >>
> >> Below is the simple code example:
> >>
> >> Click to view each image:<p>
> >>
> >> <li><a href=the-end.jpg>the end</a>
> >> <li><a href=todolist.jpg>todo list</a>
> >> <li><a href=together.jpg>together</a>
> >> <li><a href=toiletpaper.jpg>toilet paper</a>
> >> <li><a href=tpweddingdress.jpg>TP wedding dress</a>
> >> <li><a href=turkey-bacon.jpg>Turkey Bacon</a>
> >> <p>
> >> But none of the examples below work on my computer. Why?
> >> <li><a href="splash.mp4">Splash 1</a>
> >> <li><a href="file:///splash.mp4">Splash 2</a>
> >> <li><a href="vlc splash.mp4">On the command line this works: vlc
> >> splash.mp4 </a> <p>
> >> What would be the simplest code to be able to<br>
> >> just click on a menu link to view an mp4 video?
>
>
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