Html5 Media: Integrating Audio and Video with the Web

by Shelley Powers

If you're a web developer or designer familiar with CSS and JavaScript, this tightly focused introduction shows you how to add HTML5 media elements to your web pages, and how to provide custom controls for letting web visitors interact with the content.You'll also learn how to provide subtitles and captions, using file formats that work in browsers "now." This book includes code samples and downloadable examples to help you take full advantage of audio and video in your web pages. Ensure your audio or video works in all browsers that support HTML5 media elements Learn about widely supported media file codecs and containers Customize the appearance of media elements with CSS Build your own applications to work with and control media elements Apply video subtitles and closed captioning with SRT and WebVTT Use SVG filters with HTML5, and play videos in your Canvas applications Explore upcoming features, including support for multiple tracks and synchronized playback

Genres: Ebooks, Software

140 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Igor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is excellent book for the HTML5 Media. It contains all that you can do with the video and audio tags
in HTML5 until now. It is a quick read that has a lot of links to other sources where you can read more
about specific topic.

I found the part for creation custom HTML5 video player very useful and interesting.