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Streaming Video Using HTML5

Streaming Video Using HTML5

In the last post we talked about using html5 for audio and video is almost the same.

Since the rapid rise of mobile phones you will notice that a high percentage of your visitors are visiting your website on smartphones or tablets and these have quite strong security filters. Part of this filter removes flash which was the top streaming platform for a number of years.

Again there are lots of…

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Convert YouTube Video to HTML5 Formats for Websites

HTML5 video has become very popular these days for its maximum compatiblity cross different web browsers and devices, such as MS IE, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, iPhone, iPad, Android mobile, etc. If you find some very interesting YouTube videos and want to add YouTube videos to your websites, you can copy and paste the YouTube embed code into your web pages. However if you like to host the YouTube videos by yourself, or like to convert the Youtube videos to HTML5 videos first, you need to download Youtube videos from Youtube.com to your local machine, then use a video converter to convert them into mp4, webm and ogg formats. After that go to upload the HTML5 videos to your web server through FTP and embed the videos easily with the HTML5 video embed element.

In this guide, we will discuss how webmasters can easily download and convert Youtube videos to HTML5. You do not have to buy a commercial software for that, like a YouTube download or video converter. You can download the free trial of this video converter here and follow below steps to easily convert Youtube videos to HTML5 formats for websites.

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Convert YouTube Video to HTML5 Formats for Websites

Step 1. Add YouTube URL to the video converter

Step 2. Download Youtube video to your computer

Step 3. Convert Youtube video to HTML5 format

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Add HTML5 Videos to Websites

With the lates HTML5 technology, embedding videos in websites has never been easier. You do not need advanced coding knowledge or any third party plug-ins in order to add or play web videos.

HTML5 video embedding makes use of the simplest code but achieve the maximum web browser compatibiity and hardware device compatibility. HTML5 videos can be played on browsers like IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and many more, and on various devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc.

What are HTML5 videos and formats?

Unfortunately there are several video codec/formats are the actual HTML5 videos. Although we have made a great progress to have the HTML5 videos, it could be easier if we can have just one video codec/format in the future.

H.264(Baseline) in a .mp4 container.

VP8/WEBM in a .webm container.

Theroa/Vorbis in a .ogv container.

For maximum HTML5 video browser compatibility we need to make 3 different versions of the same video.

How to Embed HTML5 video into websites?

If you have single video source

<video src="demo.webm" width="640" height="480" autoplay></video>

If you have multiple video sources

  <video width="640" height="480" controls> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.webm" type="video/webm" /> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.ogv" type="video/ogg" /> </video>

HTML5 video with poster image

The poster image will be displayed before playback. So make it relevant to the video content, your website visitors can decide whether to click and play your video or not from the poster image.

<video poster="http://www.yoursite.com/poster/demo.jpg" width="640" height="480" controls> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.webm" type="video/webm" /> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.ogv" type="video/ogg" /> </video>

HTML5 video autoplay

If you do not like a poster image to let your website visitor to choose to play your video or not, you can set the HTML5 video to autoplay. Here is the sample code helps you with that.

<video poster="http://www.yoursite.com/poster/demo.jpg" width="640" height="480" autoplay controls> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.webm" type="video/webm" /> <source src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/demo.ogv" type="video/ogg" /> </video>