The promise that comes with the new HTML5 tag standards is that it will make it easier to play videos on your site by not requiring browser plugins, i.e. Flash, Windows Media, QuickTime, and Silverlight. Your browser will be equipped to just play the video by itself.
As HTML5 becomes prevalent, supposedly all you will need to do is add something like the following code:
<video src=”http://MYDOMAIN.COM/MYMOVIE.mp4“> </video>
and the video will automatically play. Yeah, right. If anything it’s even more complicated, not for the user visiting your site, but for you.
You see, the browser vendors can’t agree on a single type of video. So, under HTML5 you have to add TWO video files (mp4 and ogv), a player that determines which video to play for which browser, plus have a “fallback” Flash player for those browsers that don’t use HTML5.
There’s a list of HTML5 video players I’m testing, but most require a javascript file plus adding code to the page header in order to work.
I’ll let you know when I find one that’s decent and actually works, and create a video showing how to install it. Stay tuned….
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