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Working in IIS7.0(7.5.7600.16385) on Windows Server 2008 R2

Trying to get a video of the type .MP4 to play on a webpage.

IF the URL is specified using the actual server path, the video will play:

 \\myproductionserver\wwwroot\Video\Activevideos\videotestpage.html

This is true for our production and development servers. However if i use the actual URL:

  http://example.com/Video/ActiveVideos/videotestpage.html

...it will not play

Per various information sources, I have added .MP4 as video/mp4 to my IIS MIME Types (via GUI).
Nothing works. Thoughts on getting this to work?

================== UPDATE: I went to HTML5TEST.com and it says under the video section that MPEG 4 is not supported. following some suggestions from this post for IE 9 HTML5 - mp4 video does not play in IE9 I replaced my video tag with the one that shows "Your browser does not support the video tag."

When I ran my page, Your browser does not support the video tag. came up. So...what is that telling me? Especially since if I execute the url using the actual server paths, it works?

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Got it to work by putting the following in the page:

 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE9" /
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  • I was able to fix by adding mime type in web.config file as mentioned here, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18258125/windows-server-2008-r2-iis7-mp4-files-can-not-be-played – mehul9595 Aug 04 '17 at 03:04
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You can add this code in the webconfig:

<remove fileExtension=".mp4v" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4v" mimeType="video/mp4v" />

After restart App pool and open you website or web app

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