MP4 video does not play (stream) in Internet Explorer (9,10,11)

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Issue

  • MP4 video files served by Apache httpd do not play in Internet Explorer, with the following error displayed by the Internet Explorer browser:
Error: Unsupported video type or invalid file path
  • The same MP4 video file plays fine in Chrome and Firefox.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Apache httpd
  • Internet Explorer

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