adding video to website

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I exported edited videos from imovie to put on a website, and for some reason none will play- they continuously freeze or don't start at all.
The video itself is 20,681 KB, and is probably the smallest video file I plan to use. The code is pretty simple, if there is an alternative that works better please let me know!

<p align="center">
<video controls="" height="360" width="640"><source src="video_name.mp4" type="video/mp4" /></video>
</p>

Posted 13-Apr-15 5:24am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Apr-15 14:15pm

Is your video file correct, did you tested it locally with some player?
If it works, keep in mind: not all browsers not on all systems support all video containers and all streams, not all codecs.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-04-13T08:20:00

Please see my comment to the question, this is what you want to consider. Also please review the issues of video compatibility with HTML video element in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Supported_video_formats.

Also note that the file name pattern like *.mp4 tells next to nothing. Under this name, there can be many different container and different video, audio and other streams. Not everything supports everything.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_container_format,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_codecs_and_containers,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4.

—SA