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I am not able to play video in IE8 by using mediaelementjs.

I am using HTML5 video tag and I want the video to be played in IE8 and below browsers.

I know that IE8 doesn't support HTML5 video tag.Hence I am implementing mediaelement.js to make the video play in IE8.

Can anyone tell me how to make the video play in IE8 using mediaelement.js(HTML5 video tag)?

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  • Please post your codes :) – Alesanco Jul 25 '13 at 11:26
  • you can see the code by downloading the mediaelementjs from https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/ By opening the demos folder and going to files like mediaelementplayer.html and mediaelement.html opening them in IE8 – user2594152 Jul 25 '13 at 13:16
  • Have you read this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12099535/mediaelement-js-video-doesnt-play-in-ie8 or this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9904736/flash-fallback-video-black-screen-no-video-only-audio-media-element with the answer about the change of position into CSS? I tried but it doesn't seem to work for me... – Alesanco Jul 25 '13 at 16:01
  • I tried changing the position yet it doesn't work. – user2594152 Jul 26 '13 at 06:07
  • @user2594152 - preference on StackOverflow is to show how YOU USE code, not where you got it from. – Mark Schultheiss Aug 26 '13 at 14:51

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I guess something's wrong with your <script> tag. IE takes HTML errors more seriously, if you forgot to close it / forgot type="text/javascript" and you chose for example XHTML 1.0 STRICT doctype, mediaelement.js can not be used. Or you can also have an error elsewhere of course, but we can't identify that for you unless showing us some code.

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  • you can see the code by downloading the mediaelementjs from https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/ By opening the demos folder and going to files like mediaelementplayer.html and mediaelement.html opening them in IE8 – user2594152 Jul 25 '13 at 13:18
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I also had this Issue. The position didnt do the Trick fist. I changed the according Javascript 

$('audio,video').mediaelementplayer({
    success: function(player, node) {
        $('#' + node.id + '-mode').html('mode: ' + player.pluginType);
    }
});

to

jQuery('audio,video').mediaelementplayer({
    success: function(player, node) {
        $('#' + node.id + '-mode').html('mode: ' + player.pluginType);
    }
});

Then change position: static; and it works

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