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HTML HTML Video and Audio (Retired) Custom Media Players Adding MediaElement.js

Can't seem to get the skin to show on the player. Getting the timestamps of the video showing under the video player as

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>HTML Video and Audio</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>



<script src="mejs/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="mejs/mediaelement-and-player.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mejs/mediaelemenetplayer.min.css" />



<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mejs/mejs-skins.css">

</head> <body>

<h1>HTML Video and Audio</h1>

<div class="wrapper">

  <h2>Video Example</h2>

  <video width="852" height="480" controls>
    <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge.ogg" type="video/ogg">
    <track label="English" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" src="bridge-captions.vtt" default>
  </video>

  <h2>Audio Example</h2>

  <audio controls>
    <source src="http://treehouse-code-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/html-video-and-audio/bridge-audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
  </audio>

</div>
<script>

$('audio,video').mediaelementplayer({
  success: function(player, node) {
    $('#' + node.id + '-mode').html('mode: ' + player.pluginType);
  },
  startLanguage: 'en', 
  translationSelector: true
});

</script>

</body> </html>

2 Answers

I found the error in my code. Seems I do have everything right expect I misspelled mediaelementplayer.min.css in my href attribute.

Hi Michael,

A good way to spot errors of this kind is to open the developer tools of your browser and check the network tab. Misspelt filenames will show as 404 requests.

Hi Paul,

Yes, sometimes I forget to even open the developer tools. It's such a great tool and definitely appreciate those words of wisdom.