# html5 and finding video source
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314
**Category:** Dev/API Corner
**Tags:** plugin-dev
**Created:** [September 14, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314 "2010-09-14T22:39:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/1 "2010-09-14T22:39:05Z")
When you are lucky enough to find the video sources for a website, and I plug that video url into firefox. I know that this is the movie source (ends in mp4). Should this video play in firefox?
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### Author:  [@sander1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sander1)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/2 "2010-09-14T23:07:43Z")
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> When you are lucky enough to find the video sources for a website, and I plug that video url into firefox. I know that this is the movie source (ends in mp4). Should this video play in firefox?
Firefox doesn't support the H.264 videocodec (in the html5 video tag) that's probably used for that .mp4 file. But if you find the path to the .mp4 file, a Plex plugin should be able to handle it.
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/3 "2010-09-14T23:18:34Z")
so when I get mp4:/xxx.mov, I find the base and send that to VideoItem?
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### Author:  [@sander1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sander1)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/4 "2010-09-14T23:43:54Z")
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> so when I get mp4:/xxx.mov, I find the base and send that to VideoItem?
That looks more like the clip part of a streaming video (RTMP). Do you have an example page where we can look at?
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/5 "2010-09-14T23:46:45Z")
yeah, it probably is. It’s [abc.com](http://abc.com). I thought they had moved to HTML5, but I think they are still with move networks.
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### Author:  [@sander1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sander1)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/6 "2010-09-15T00:20:30Z")
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> yeah, it probably is. It's abc.com. I thought they had moved to HTML5, but I think they are still with move networks.
I think they're using Flash now. Have to check on another machine with a VPN connection to be 100% sure though.
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### Author:  [@Dbl\_A](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dbl_A)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/7 "2010-09-15T00:25:30Z")
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> I think they're using Flash now. Have to check on another machine with a VPN connection to be 100% sure though.
I just had a look. It does look like they've moved away from the Move plugin, pure flash now.
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/8 "2010-09-15T01:21:42Z")
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> I just had a look. It does look like they've moved away from the Move plugin, pure flash now.
They still host through the move networks though. at least that's what my browser was doing.
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/9 "2010-09-15T01:30:49Z")
Here’s what I have so far if anyone else thinks that they can take it on home.
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### Author:  [@Dbl\_A](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dbl_A)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/10 "2010-09-17T03:30:35Z")
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> Here's what I have so far if anyone else thinks that they can take it on home.
Hey Harley,
Nice work on the "potatoes," here's some "meat." ;)
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/11 "2010-09-17T14:18:13Z")
Rock on dbl\_a, thanks for the help. First time that I haven’t had to make a site config. Wow. I’ll fix up the art, and submit this and abcfamily, which is now completable, this weekend. Now Plex has all of the major US content providers. Great Job Dbl\_A!
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/12 "2010-09-17T15:35:31Z")
got new artwork and modified for abcfamily too. I’ll be putting them up on github tonight.
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### Author:  [@JoeFresso](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JoeFresso)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/13 "2010-12-14T20:44:00Z")
Hey harley… I installed both ABC and ABC family bundle. they both show up in plex and ABC works completely, but when I go into family one all the show come up (and appear to be updated), but when selecting one of them, they do not go anywhere. Just stays on that page. any idea if i need to install something else or how to get that one working? thanks
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### Author:  [@hrcolb0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hrcolb0)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/14 "2010-12-15T03:06:47Z")
the fixes are here:
[http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/17035-rel-5-us-plugins/page\_\_st\_\_40\_\_gopid\_\_131809#entry131809](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/17035-rel-5-us-plugins/page __st__ 40 __gopid__ 131809#entry131809)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/html5-and-finding-video-source/5314/15 "2019-12-20T20:45:59Z")
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