Why does VideoJS's $("#video")[0].player.pause() break in IE8?

I'm trying to control the play and pause function an HTML5 video using the VideoJS plugin and the following command:

  $("#clip")[0].player.pause();

Everything works fine in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, but not in IE8.

The debugger says:

this.player is null or not an object.

This command also works in the other browsers but not in IE8:

   $("#cl开发者_Python百科ip")[0].pause();

Any thoughts?

IE8 doesn't support html5 video tag

Can you give it a class, instead of an ID?

Maybe IE8 doesn't like the multiple ID's on the same page?

 $(".clip")[0].player.pause();