HTML5 video and browser compatibility

HTML5 video and browser compatibility

Now to use video on browser is quite easy, we don't want any flash player any more, simply we can use <vidoe> tag and set the video path with src and done.

Video tag attributes:

autoplay : "autoplay" or "" (empty string) [Instructs the UA to automatically begin playback of the video as soon as it can do so without stopping.]
preload : "none" or "metadata" or "auto" or "" (empty string)
controls : "controls" or "" (empty string)
loop: "loop" or "" (empty string), loop if you need to repeate.
poster : Image URL to show while no video data is available
height : non-negative integer in pixels
width : non-negative integer in pixels
muted = "muted" or "" (empty string)
src : video URL

Example 1: Simple video player with HTML5

<video controls  src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogv">
       Text to show if browser is not supporting HTML5 video tag
</video>

Text will appear if your brwoser is not supporting the html5 video support.

To check where your browser is supporting html5 video or not.

Example 2: With alternative sources

<video controls>
    <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4" 
               type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
   <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm" 
               type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' />
    <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogv" 
               type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
   <p>Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Video element.</p>
</video>

If your browser support any of the type that will be dipsplyed other wise the message in <p>..</p> tag.

Example 3: Suppose user browser is not supporting any of the source type then? It's not good to show the message but some way to so the video any case. Check this, I will show the video via flash player when your all HTML5 will be failed.

<video controls preload="auto" autoplay="UA" >
   <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4" 
          type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
   <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm" 
           type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' />
   <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogv" 
           type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />

  <!-- Flash Fallback. Use any flash video player here. -->
  <!-- Make sure to keep the vjs-flash-fallback class. -->
  <object class="vjs-flash-fallback" width="640" height="264" 
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash"       
    data="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf">
    <param name="movie" 
      value="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf" />
    <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
       <param name="flashvars" 
         value='config={"playlist":["http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png", 
             {"url": "http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4",
             "autoPlay":false,"autoBuffering":true}]}' />
    <!-- Image Fallback. Typically the same as the poster image. -->
    <img src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png" width="640" 
              height="264" alt="Poster Image" 
              title="No video playback capabilities." />
  </object>
</video>

	.Net developer html
	By Myghty On 30 Dec, 12 Viewed: 1,499

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