How to play .MP4 files in Safari

Question

I have developed a website using wordpress. I have placed a video in the home page and it works fine in Chrome, Mozila and IE but in Safari. I have used the html5 video tag, can any one suggest how I can play MP4 videos in Safari? This is the code I am using to play the video in my site.

<video width="800" height="1000" controls>
  <source src="life.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="life.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  Your browser doesn't support the video.
</video>

The code above worked fine, except in Safari. Is there any flash player solution toplay .mp4 videos?

Possible duplicate of HTML5 Video tag not working in Safari , iPhone and iPad — Tarod

VC.One VC.One · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-05T14:18:25

(1) You don't need Flash Player plugin just for playing an MP4 file in most browsers. MP4 decoding is already built-in. Use Flash only for un-supported features.

(2) WordPress has its own video embedding short code method, if the video tag method is not working well for you.

Make a new blank post in WP and simply write a shortcode like below. Check it plays in Preview?

[ video src = "your_video_file.mp4" ]

How to play .MP4 files in Safari

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