Mpg and AVI Video Issue

[owned4free]

This may be browser related, I've searched and found a few things which relate somewhat to the topic, but nothing that directly corresponds to it.

I have a website: www.owned4free.com WARNING - does contain nude pictures and some pornographic content (but nothing you can see on the front page)
Also - the particular file is under videos section - labeled "MomDaughter Owned!".

There is a video file, just one, that I put up because it was funny to me and my friends, regardless of the video, it only loads on some computers.
The orignal MPG video didn't display, I converted to AVI, it too does not display.

This is both in my version of Mozilla Firefox and a friends unknown version of Internet Explorer.

Is this a server-script issue that I have overlooked? or is it purely client side issue? Mozilla says I need to download a plugin, but I can play it if I download it, just can't play it through mozzilla.

[owned4free]

[Partially Solved]
Well, I was able to convert it to WMV format after I found a really good vid converter and it works for me now, both fire fox and IE outdated.
But I would still like to know if anyone has experienced this problem and has a possible solution in case it comes up again?

[Joachim Müller]

I'm not a video expert, and I don't know about MPG details, but AVI is not one fixed encoding, but more of a container for different encoding formats. This means even though a player may be capable of showing one avi file, it may not play another one (that has been encoded differently). It's hard to say what exactly went wrong with the file you're refering to.

Joachim

[Casper]

I'm having difficulty playing avi in firefox, I get the same results as you did, no plugin available.

[owned4free]

That sounds about right GauGau, I know very little about avi as well, I just assumed there was one way to code avi - but looking how other video formats are encoded, I think you are right.

I'll just have to stick with converting videos I guess, fortunately nothing too hard to do since the movies I host are only clips.

[kegobeer]

AVI (audio video interleave) is defined by Microsoft.  It's the most widely used format on Windows machines but not the easiest because it's not compressed with one codec; it can be compressed (or not compressed at all) with literally hundreds of different formats, like DivX, MPEG-4v2, Indeo 3.2, I263, Cinepak, etc.  It's most widely used as a capture format, edited, and finally compressed into a different format (MPEG, WMV, Quicktime).

Most likely the AVI has a hard to find codec.

[omniscientdeveloper]

Actually, the problem is that I didn't tell it which player (plugin) to use for the video. I did this because some people may have different players installed on their computers. For instance, one user can have Quicktime play their vids while another can have WMP play their vids, some could be on non-windows operating systems that don't have either. Leaving it blank worked for the time, but I guess I should add some one-time prompt where a user can set the player for a specific vid-type. If someone else is willing to do it for me, I won't argue. I'm kind of bogged down right now.