You may come to know about the inbuilt player coming with HTML5. If you don’t know then this will be a good reason to learn this new stuff in HTML5.
This is the tag <video>
Attributes are width, height, controls. <video width=”720″ height=”480″ controls=”controls”></video>
Give width and height to display the size of the video to play on the browser whereas controls will display the default controls like play, pause, mute etc.,
And only <video> tag is not enough to play a video because we need to give a source of a video! for that HTML5 comes with a new tag called <source>
<source> is the tag to include the source of a video
Here is the example to show how it is working.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>video tag example</title> </head> <body> <video width="728" height="480" controls> <source src="TheMummyReturns.mp4" type="video/mp4"> <source src="TheMummyReturns.ogg" type="video/ogg"> Video tag is not supported in your browser. Use Firefox or Chrome or IE9 </video> </body> </html>
The above code will diplay a player in your browser and the video will play if you click the play button (video should be present in your hard drive with the same name eg.video.mp4).
NOTE: MP4 format not supported by Firefox. Better work this example with Google Chrome.
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