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HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook

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HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is the most significant new advancement the web has seen in many years. HTML5 adds many new features including the video, audio, and canvas elements, as well as the integration of SVG. This cookbook is packed full of recipes that will help you harness HTML5’s next generation multimedia features. HTML5 is the future.Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a total newbie, this book gives you the recipes that will serve as your practical guide to creating semantically rich websites and apps using HTML5. Get ready to perform a quantum leap harnessing HTML5 to create powerful, real world applications. Many of the new key features of HTML5 are covered, with self-contained practical recipes for each topic. Forget hello world. These are practical recipes you can utilize straight away to create immersive, interactive multimedia applications. Create a stylish promo page in HTML5. Use SVG to replace text dynamically. Use CSS3 to control background size and appearance. Use the Canvas to process images dynamically. Apply custom playback controls to your video.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Embedding audio and video for mobile devices


We've really only touched on the mobile experience thus far but as development increases for ever-smarter mobile units, we need to turn our attention to getting our new HTML5 audio and video to display on those devices. Here's how.

How to do it...

Now that we know how to choose a HTML5 audio or video file format for our intended audience, we can now turn our attention to making sure they can hear or view it not just on their desktop computers and laptops, but also on their mobile devices.

We'll start by creating a free account with http://vimeo.com. Once your registration is complete, choose the Upload | Video ability in the main menu. You'll choose the file you want to upload, add optional metadata, and let the Vimeo servers do their work setting up your file. Next is when the real excitement begins: Embedding the video. Choose Tools | Embed This Video from the Vimeo main menu.

How it works...

Vimeo used to use the now old-fashioned Flash...