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Flash fallback

Hi, can you explain me how the fallback works? How the player tests if browser can play a video?

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Andrew

JW Player Support Agent  
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There are some manual decisions that we make for general playback best practices, but we also rely on the canPlayType() Method.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_met_canplaytype.asp

Which is the reason why our player was able to render in HTML5 mode as soon as Firefox supported MP4 natively. :)

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