HTML5 Video/Audio

1-day Web Design Course in HTML5 Video & Audio — H5V

A web media training course which introduces the purpose, syntax and usage of the HTML5 video and HTML audio tags

Historic problems with web multimedia
- The generic problem of MIME type support
- Reliance on plugins
- Non-standard <embed> vs. standard <object>
- Competing proprietary codecs
- Media players ignoring standard control parameters
- Accessibility — incl. mouse-only controls
The new HTML5 video and audio markup
- How it resolves historic problems
- Issues left open, e.g. DRM
HTML5 audio and video support in current browsers
- Gecko — Firefox, et al.
- Trident — Internet Explorer, et al.
- Webkit — Chrome, Chromium, Safari, et al.
- Presto — Opera
- KHTML — Konqueror, et al.
- Text-only browsers and Assistive Technology (AT)
Understanding the conflict over video and audio formats
- Packaging vs. encoding (codecs)
- Patented vs. patent-free codecs
- ‘Free-to-use’ — for viewers vs. producers & distributors
Configuring web servers to deliver HTML5 media
- HTTP headers
- Streaming

On completion of this HTML5 training course, stuents should be able to:

Embed multimedia in web pages using the HTML5 video and audio tags
Deliver in cross-browser, high-usability and high-accessibility HTML5 code
Ensure that all browsers get suitably formatted media
Ensure that legacy browsers play the same media, e.g. by:
- Either, adding support for the HTML5 video and audio tags
- Or, delivering the same media wuth legacy fallbacks, e.g. Flash

Either:

Or equivalent practical experience of standards-based HTML and CSS

A practical HTML5 training course with the majority of time devoted to hands-on exercises

Just over half the time will be devoted to hands-on exercises and just under half devoted to instruction