I found a stash of old video clips I'd like to share online with a HTML5-video player. But none of them opens in Chrome. I guess the codecs are not supported.
What format should I convert to? What is the recommended container and video/audio codec to use in 2022? I am using VLC (3.0.16) and the videos play nicely on my PC. But whatever combination of container/audio/video-codecs I try to convert to Chrome still won't play them. It would be nice to know what the preferred format and codecs to use...
Or should I not bother converting them like this but instead screen-capture them to a new video? Can VLC do that instead of converting? Or is that already what it does when I press "Convert/Save"?
This is a video that works fine to play:
And this video does not work:
Not even after converting it to this: