What's the best way to display on a browser running on a computer/tablet/cell a video stored on my IIS server

Question

I storing some videos on my IIS server and would like to now display them on a browser. I'm aware that HTML5 has a video tag, but don't know how many browsers can use that. I'm also open to use a 3rd party tool (if needed).

The videos will need to display on the major browsers running on a computer, tablets and cellphones.

Sorry, one last point.
The videos are currently encoded as h264 and their size are between 50k and 200k.

Any help will be truly appreciated.

Answer 1

Almost all major browsers support the html5 video element at this point. There's a matrix available on caniuse.com .

The only browsers of note that don't support it are IE8 and Opera Mini, which is a pretty short list.

Answer 2

When it comes to streaming video, I always recommend distributing the video via Vimeo, it's super easy, and the player can be customised to a degree. Streaming the video on your own server just sucks up your bandwidth. Vimeo can take away all those network/mime type issues, they'll even deliver a customised experience depending on your browser, you'd have to do all that yourself if you were delivering it via your own website.