Play mp4 instead of downloading

This works fine for Firefox. What would I gain by inserting the video as web objects? Thanks for your help. Hi Kate, You can check out the difference in this documentation. Hi Leslie, I didn't do any of the three options shown in the documentation. Thanks, Kate. Hi Kate! It sounds like you have a URL to your video file, is that correct? If so, try this: Go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Web Object. The Insert Web Object window will appear.

Type the URL of the video in the Address field. Decide how you want the video to display. Choose either Display in slide or Display in a new browser window. Mark the box to Load web object automatically if you want your video to load without any interaction from learners. Uncheck the box if you want your video to load only when learners click it.

Click OK when you're finished. Let me know if that helps! Create a slide and insert your video there. Create a custom resources tab on player and add a trigger. The trigger should open the slide with video Treat that slide as lightbox. This will run the video instead of asking a user to download.

I hope this helps. Similar to above stes, add videos in slides and name accordingly. Returned Video URL are not pointing to the resource directly. Instead it has redirection to the resource. For FLV file download starts without any problem. But in case of MP4 files, a player is launching to play it. Please provide any solution to stop loading of the player and initiate the download in case of MP4 videos.

I don't control the resource server. If you use both it'll work across browsers The disposition header also allows you to specify a name for the to be downloaded file in case you want to change that or if you download through a PHP file. From this article :. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 7 years, 9 months ago. Active 2 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 3k times. This behavior is same for without redirected resource URL.

Improve this question. Akhilesh Akhilesh 1, 14 14 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. You need a Content-Disposition: attachment http header or to change the response mimetype.

I am using iframe techinque to initiate download — Akhilesh. That's nice :. Doesn't change what you need to do though. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Sad part is that I don't control the resource server. To initiate download I am using Iframes.