: Mp4 videos are showing up as "corrupt" after uploading them to web server? I took a sample mp4 video from here and uploaded it to the web server via FileZilla. Once the file was on the web

@Shelley277

Posted in: #Ftp #Html5 #Uploading #Video

I took a sample mp4 video from here and uploaded it to the web server via FileZilla. Once the file was on the web server navigating to it in a browser gives the error when viewed in Mozilla.


Video can't be played because the file is corrupt


If you navigate to the URL in Chrome, you hear the audio but the video doesn't play.

If I download the video to my local machine from the web server the video won't load and I get errors saying it is corrupt. The file is fine before uploading.

I'm really confused about what is going on. I tried uploading a .mov file and I don't get this issue. The file uploads and runs fine (although I don't think .mov is supported by the HTML5 <movie> tag). I want to get the file in mp4 format.

Is this a known issue? Is this a browser issue or likely an ftp issue? I'm not really sure why this is happening.

Note

I have uploaded the sample file linked above from 2 different FTP clients and under Binary and ASCII uploads and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Vote Up Vote Down

Login to post a comment!