Chapter 12. Multimedia
In this chapter we will cover the following recipes:
- Playing audio files
- Playing video files
- Customizing controls for media elements
- Adding text to your video
- Embedding multimedia
- Converting text to speech using HTML5 audio
Introduction
HTML5 adds two elements audio and video, which provide a functionality that was previously done with use of add-ons to the browsers. In most of the cases, we find players that are Flash-based but that is lately being changed. Most of the browsers now have a good support for the basic HTML5 media element related functionality.
Customization options for the player were very limited and vendor specific. Most of the sites had and some still have their own custom players that were done in Flash, since ...
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