Information & Communication Technology
Video on the Web
Marghanita da Cruz
Video in HTML 5
Webm
Sylvia Pfeiffer at Linux.conf.au 2011: The Latest and Coolest with HTML5 Video on www.youtube.com
Theora makes its way back into the HTML5 standard! Re: proposed audio/video codec text (July 2009)
The Draft HTML5 Specification describes how video and audio should be incorporated in webpages. Listed below are the relevant items in the current specfication which are under review.
- video and audio codecs - browsers should support Ogg, Vorbis, Theora
Examples of Ogg/Theora/Vorbis video clips
- figure
- video element
- audio element
- media element
- irrelevant
- error codes
- network states
- ready states
- user interface
- security privacy
- ECMA script
Implementing Wishlist for Video on the Web, 21 August 2007 (Work in Progress - comments welcome)
- an ability to associate/display a still image - or first frame on the webpage to indicate video - possibly covered by irrelevant tag
- choice of streaming or download of entire clip - media/video/audio elements
- captioning for the hearing impaired/description for the visually impaired/alternate languages -lang tag
- dubbing/alternate audio streams - multilingual
- Ability to provide alternate versions of video - for those with limited bandwidth/alternate devices- network states?
- Timecoded playlists
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