My Findings on HTML5 – Video / Audio Tags

Posted by Alex T. on Sep 14, 2010 in Tech | 1 comment

Objective of the Research Findings

• Find useful HTML5 elements which are now safe to use in modern browser
• Must have some fallback strategy as backup.

Solutions found so far for VIDEO/AUDIO TAG,

• Use video tags in conjunction with with flowplayer.org as fallback. Using MP4 as the standard file format for all videos.
• Firefox 3.6 still have problems playing mp4 video using VIDEO TAG (they only can support Ogg format for now).
• Refer to samples on how to implement this feature more in http://videojs.com/
• For audio tags should be using MP3 as standard file format for all audio. Again Firefox 3.6 having problem on that. (they only can support Ogg format for now).
• If you need an audio specific fallback code http://soukie.net/degradable-html5-audio-and-video-plugin/