November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 23m
English
Content preview from HTML5: Your visual blueprint™ for designing rich web pages and applications
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PLAY MOVIES WITH THE HTML5 VIDEO ELEMENT
After you have your movie encoded in the HTML5-friendly codecs, you are ready to place the video on your web page. You do so by using the <video> tag group, its optional attributes, and <source> tags — one for each movie file format:
<video height='640' width='480'
poster='image' controls preload>
<source src='movie.mp4' type='video/mp4;
codecs="avc1.640029, mp4a.40.2"'>
<source src='movie.webm' type='video/webm;
codecs="vp8, vorbis"'>
<source src='movie.ogv' type='video/ogg;
codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
Fallback display.
</video>
Although the height and width variables are not required, they are highly recommended. Otherwise, only when the video is preloading or starts playing will the element adjust ...
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