I am trying to play the video from the <video> tag with the cgi script. Here is my code 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new;

print $cgi->header(
        -type=> "text/html" );

print <<EOF;
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="/home/ubuntu_Workspace/c/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video> 
EOF

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When i keep the file in the server i can play it.But if i keep the video file in some other directory it wont play the video instead it will give the error. After doing some research i came to know that it should be in the path where server can access that directory.So the most cases it would be /var/www/ path.But what should i do when the video files are in the different paths.I mean it could be able to play the file whichever path it may be.

In reply to (OT) HTML video tag is not working in cgi by awanti

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