The HTML5 web standard has opened up many new possibilities for developing rich, interactive content and animations. HTML5 provides support for video and audio playback as well as drawing and graphics on the canvas.
HTML5 introduced the video
and audio
tags to the HTML document object model (DOM). These tags enable you to easily add video or audio to your web page directly in HTML. All browsers and devices that implement the standard provide the video player and control interface, so all you have to do is specify the paths to the videos and which options to use.
Beyond ease of use, HTML5 video can be seen on devices and screens that do not support Adobe Flash Player (Apple iPad and iPhone devices, for example, as well as the newer Google Android devices). As more people are using devices other than desktop computers to browse the Internet, the need to move toward web standard technologies is increasingly important.
In this post, we have gathered industry’s best HTML5 video/audio players and video converters as well.
Open Source HTML5 Video Player: VideoJS
WordPress HTML5 Video Plugin: Secure HTML5 Video Player