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The State of Video on the Web

The State of Video on the Web

A few days ago, Google announced that they were dropping support for the H.264 video codec in its popular browser, Chrome. In light of that, today, we’re going to take a look at the ramifications and current state of video on the web.

HTML5 Audio and Video: What you Must Know

HTML5 Audio and Video: What you Must Know

In promotion of what I consider to be the best HTML5 book currently available on the market, Remy Sharp and Bruce Lawson agreed to donate a chapter of Introducing HTML5 to our readers, which details the ins and outs of working with HTML5 video and audio.

A LONG TIME AGO, in a galaxy that feels a very long way away, multimedia on the Web was limited to tinkling MIDI tunes and animated GIFs. As bandwidth got faster and compression technologies improved, MP3 music supplanted MIDI and real video began to gain ground. All sorts of proprietary players battled it out—Real Player, Windows Media, and so on—until one emerged as the victor in 2005: Adobe Flash, largely because of the ubiquity of its plugin and the fact that it was the delivery mechanism of choice for YouTube.


This entry is part 5 of 14 in the HTML5 and You Session
Build a Custom HTML5 Video Player: Free Premium Tutorial
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Build a Custom HTML5 Video Player: Free Premium Tutorial

Much like the other various Envato marketplaces, our newly launched Tuts+ marketplace will offer a free file each month. For September, that free file/tutorial just so happens to mine! I’ll show you how to build a custom HTML5 video player with Flash fallback support.

Be sure to grab this one for free for the entire month of September. Next month, it’ll return to its original price.