title: How to embed mp4 video in FireFox without .ogg or .webm
body: <p>I'm working on an application which utilizes Instagrams real-time api. Basically my app loops through any uploaded Instagram videos with a specific Hashtag. That part is working fantastic. </p>
  
  <p>Here's where I have a problem, Instagram only provide their videos as .mp4 which doesn't work in all versions of Firefox &lt;21. After a fair bit of investigation on the Mozilla blog it appears that mp4 isn't supported due to patenting issues, and it looks like it's going to stay that way.</p>
  
  <p>Just to make it clear that re-saving/encoding the videos as .ogg/webm isn't practical as I'm purely relying on Instagram hosting the videos and then providing the source url to the video.</p>
  
  <p>So I require a fallback. Can a flash player be used to play mp4 videos? I tend to steer well clear of Flash so I'm very unfamiliar with it. </p>