Chapter 18: Integrating Audio and Video
The chapter examines the steps to perform to place video and audio within a
webpage. By the time you finish this chapter, you will understand the following
key concepts:
● How the HTML 5 <video> and </video> tag pair can be used to include a
video file within a webpage
● How to add video controls with the controls attribute
● How video files can be saved in a variety of file formats, which not all
browsers support
● How to support common browsers by providing multiple video file formats,
such as streaming versus downloaded video, within your webpage
● How to control your video size with the height and width attributes
● How developers can optimize video quality or the video file size by
compressing video using different formats called codecs
● How to support the <video> and </video> tag pair with older browsers by
embedding video within your webpage using the <embed> or <object> tags
● How to buffer video to play it without a downloading delay
● How to display a default image until a video starts to play
● How to loop a video
● How YouTube can handle the details
● How to provide multiple audio file formats within your webpage to support
common browsers
● How to embed audio within your webpage using the <embed> or
<object> tags because older browsers do not support the <audio>
and </audio> tag pair
● How to use a link to an audio file
● How to control background audio
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