HTML5 Video (Video)

Many sites will use to video. HTML5 provides a standard video display.

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Until now, still does not exist a standard aimed at video display on the page.

Today, most video through the plug-ins (such as Flash) to be displayed. However, not all browsers have the same plugins.

HTML5 specifies a standard way to include video through the video elements.

Browser Support

Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari support <video> element.

Note: Internet Explorer 8 or earlier versions of IE do not support the <video> element.

HTML5 (video) - How it works

To display video in HTML5, all you need is:

Examples

<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
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</video>

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<Video> element provides the play, pause and volume controls to control the video.

At the same time <video> element element also provides height and width attributes control the dimensions of the video. If you set the height and width of the required video space will be retained when the page loads. . If you do not set these properties, the browser does not know the size of the video, the browser you can not reserve a specific space when loaded, the page will be based on the original video size change.

<Video> between </ video> tag and inserted content is not available to support the video elements displayed in the browser.

<Video> element supports multiple <source> element. <Source> elements can link to different video files. The browser will use the first recognized format:

Video formats and browser support

Current, <video> element supports three video formats: MP4, WebM, and Ogg:

Browser	MP4	WebM	Ogg
Internet Explorer	YES	NO	NO
Chrome	YES	YES	YES
Firefox	YES	YES	YES
Safari	YES	NO	NO
Opera	YES (from Opera 25 onwards)	YES	YES

MP4 = MPEG 4 files with H.264 video and AAC audio encoding
WebM = WebM files with VP8 video and Vorbis encoded audio coding
Ogg = Ogg files with Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio

Video Format

格式	MIME-type
MP4	video/mp4
WebM	video/webm
Ogg	video/ogg

HTML5 <video> - to control the use of DOM

HTML5 <video> and <audio> element also has methods, properties, and events.

Methods <video> and <audio> elements, properties, and events can be controlled using JavaScript.

Which methods are used to play, pause, and load and so on. Wherein the properties (such as duration, volume, etc.) can be read or set. Wherein DOM event can inform you that, say, <video> element start playing, paused, stopped, and so on.

Examples of simple method, we demonstrate how to use the <video> element, read and set properties, and how to invoke methods.