Title: Does WordPress Block HTML 5 Video?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Does WordPress Block HTML 5 Video?

 *  [alanchrishughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanchrishughes/)
 * (@alanchrishughes)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-block-html-5-video/)
 * I’ve been trying to make this extremely basic page template for videos
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <video width="1280" height="720" controls>
   
       <source src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'webm', true); ?>" type="video/webm">
   
       <source src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mp4', true); ?>" type="video/mp4">
   
       </video> 
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * But it wasn’t working. I thought maybe it was a problem in the way I was calling
   for the custom field entry for the videos urls, but even when you directly code
   the url’s, you get an error saying “No video with supported MIME type found.”
 * The code works fine a basic html page, so I assume it must be a problem with 
   WordPress? Anybody know how to fix it?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-block-html-5-video/#post-4061905)
 * WP filters out some embedment HTML, forcing you to use it’s internal system, 
   which whitelists only certain services. The internal system works well most of
   the time. See [Embeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds), though it may be slightly
   out of date. While the embedment technique is still the same, I believe I read
   somewhere oEmbed is no longer used internally in v3.6.
 *  Thread Starter [alanchrishughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanchrishughes/)
 * (@alanchrishughes)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-block-html-5-video/#post-4061984)
 * Thanks [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * I haven’t launched the live site yet but it seems the problem was the server 
   didn’t yet recognize the “MIME type.” This seemed to fix the problem [http://www.html5videoplayer.net/html5video/enable-html5-videos-wordpress-mp4-webm-ogg-mime-types-setup/](http://www.html5videoplayer.net/html5video/enable-html5-videos-wordpress-mp4-webm-ogg-mime-types-setup/)
 * Is there a fix for the problem you were talking about though? With html being
   filtered out?
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-block-html-5-video/#post-4061989)
 * I’m not sure. I believe it is part of the tinymce editor somehow. Not something
   I know much about, much less how to cleanly hack it. Further more, there may 
   be other filters in the process to stymie your efforts.
 * My inclination would be to figure out a way to work with the embedment system
   rather than try to fight it. It was implemented this way partly for security 
   reasons. Like many security measures, it can be a PITA, but it’s in our best 
   interest to work with it instead of trying to disable it.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-block-html-5-video/#post-4061989)
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