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Learn more. Mp4 Download causes browser to play file instead of download Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 48k times. How do I force the browser to download the file instead.

Regards and thanks Craig. Improve this question. Craig Mc Craig Mc 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Surely their must be something in the header that changes the behavior Press Alt and click on link to. Solution — Anton Dozortsev. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Depending upon the server side language you are having the implementation differs. Improve this answer. Srijith Vijayamohan Srijith Vijayamohan 6 6 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

This answer is awesome. Cheers bro! Johnny Johnny 1, 9 9 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. That makes more sense to me, tampering the headers for content disposition would make sense. Thank you will test and award shortly. Setting the Content-Disposition header should fix it. Matt Rink Matt Rink 2 2 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Anas Anas 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Php based, but I get the basic gist. Plz see the example below. Aby Aby 1, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Thanks for the useful information, it helpful to fix the problem. Google Chrome still not a zero error browser. There is a lot of issues one needs to face to work in chrome. Chrome might get problematic at the time of installing, at the time of confirming form resubmission and also at the time of playing the embedded videos in google chrome. I had the same problem on Windows PC I tried 4 different browser check all settings also tried hardware acceleration on and off but still had an issue.

Can anyone help me fix this issue? Hi Moritz, I suggest you need to update windows or drivers on your PC or you can use method 6 to resolve your issue! I had the same issue on my Mac the past couple of months, videos not playing on chrome, YouTube. I found your on google and follow the given methods to fix my problem.

It works. Thanks for the wonderful information sharing! I had google and search found you blog, the problem is I have tried chrome and work fine for me but when I playing YouTube, they got an issue as soon as I run anything at 60 fps, its drop packets and when I play the videos 30 fps are no issue at all.

Any help would be appreciated! Hi Anna, YouTube videos quality drop on 60fps. The best ways 30fps one have a higher gamma or stronger contrast and the 60 fps one is more wasted out, as clarity, they bit seem the same but the colors seem to be different. Thanks to you to provide the best ways to fix videos. Your email address will not be published.

Time limit is exhausted. Note: We will not share your personal data with any third parties. We will only send you quick startup guides, offers and free giveaways. Stellar Data Recovery. Recovers deleted files, photos, videos etc. Video Repair. Written By. Harsha Alamchandani. Approved By. Rohit Arora. But luckily, the web video playback issues can be easily fixed. Update Google Chrome. Update Adobe Flash Player.

Disable Hardware Acceleration Plugins in Chrome. Disable Adblock on Chrome. Allow Flash on the site. Method 1: Clear Cached Data in Chrome Clearing the browser history, cache temporary files , and cookies can solve many browser-related issues like videos not playing or buffering problems in Chrome. Click on Settings in the dropdown menu. Click on Clear browsing data.

Click on You can also select the time range of deleting this data from Last hour , 24 hours to All time. Check-in Browsing history, Download history, Cached images and files, Cookies, and other site data. Click Clear Data at the bottom.

Now, open Chrome and check if the videos are playing well. Method 2: Update Google Chrome Updates fix bugs and mostly resolve web video playing issues. Steps to update Chrome: Open the menu icon in Chrome browser and click Settings.

On the top left corner click Settings. Select About Chrome. Update if a new version is available. Click Check for an update. If you see any updates, install. Method 4: Turn off Hardware Acceleration in Chrome Whenever Google Chrome does not load properly or web videos do not play on it, turn off Hardware Acceleration in the browser settings.

Under Advanced scroll down and select System. Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available. Click on Content Settings. Scroll to the plugin you want to disable. Click on it. Toggle off Ask First to disable Plug-ins in your Chrome. In the dropdown select Extensions on the left.

Find AdBlock and toggle it off. You can also select the Remove button to delete it completely. Steps to Allow Flash on the website: Open the website in Chrome. To the left of the web address, click on the Lock icon. Choose Always allow on this site.