Playing Ogg videos using a Java applet
There’s a Java applet called Cortado that you can use as a fallback to play Ogg videos in browsers that have Java support but don’t support HTML5 video: If you do not create an...
Category: Audio and Video with HTMl5
Audio and Video with HTMl5
Using Flash
You can use Flash to play a Flash format movie if the <video> element isn’t supported: Note that you shouldn’t include classid in the object tag in order to be compatible with browsers other...
Seeking through media
Media elements provide support for moving the current playback position to specific points in the media’s content. This is done by setting the value of the currentTime property on the element; see HTMLMediaElement for...
Controlling media playback
Once you’ve embedded media into your HTML document using the new elements, you can programmatically control them from JavaScript code. For example, to start (or restart) playback, you can do this: The first line...
Embedding Audio in HTML5
Here is an example for embedding audio into your HTML document.
Embedding Video HTML5
Firefox does not support the MP4 format within its video tag. The main reason why is the royalty fee attached to the mp4 format. So we use ogg file format.
Checking for Browser Support
The easiest way to check for support of the video and audio tags is to dynamically create one or both with scripting and check for the existence of a function:
Overview
HTML5 introduces built-in media support via the and elements, offering the ability to easily embed media into HTML documents. Browser Support for Audio and Video Browser Codec and Container Support Chrome Ogg (Theora and...