I am running canopy 1.0.3.1262 on ubuntu 12.04. When trying to embed a mpeg 4 video as described in this tutorial, the notebook's output displays Your browser does not support the video tag. Is there a way I can connect to the kernel with firefox? Or, alternatively, is there a way I can get the video to play in Canopy?
This is not a very convenient way to do it, but you can look at Canopy's log files, to see the URL of the notebook, and open it in a browser. This work-flow will be simplified in an upcoming release of Canopy.
But, Canopy adds some custom JavaScript to notebooks, to manage saving and make minor modifications to the layout, etc. Unfortunately, this code seems to assume that the notebook would be opened inside Canopy alone, and causes a failure when the notebook is opened outside Canopy. This bug will be fixed in an upcoming release of Canopy.