HTML Multimedia

Multimedia on the web, is sound, music, videos, movies, and animations.

What is Multimedia?

Multimedia comes in many different formats. It can be almost anything you can hear or see.
Examples: Pictures, music, sound, videos, records, films, animations, and more.
Web pages often contains multimedia elements of different types and formats.
In this chapter you will learn about the different multimedia formats.

Playing Videos in HTML

Before HTML5, there was no standard for showing videos on a web page.
Before HTML5, videos could only be played with a plug-in (like flash).
The HTML5 <video> element specifies a standard way to embed a video in a web page.

HTML5 Video Tags

Tag	Description
<video>	Defines a video or movie
<source>	Defines multiple media resources for media elements, such as <video> and <audio>
<track>	Defines text tracks in media players

HTML5 provides a standard for playing audio files.

Audio on the Web

Before HTML5, there was no standard for playing audio files on a web page.
Before HTML5, audio files could only be played with a plug-in (like flash).
The HTML5 <audio> element specifies a standard way to embed audio in a web page.

The HTML <audio> Element

To play an audio file in HTML, use the <audio> element:

HTML5 Audio Tags

Tag	Description
<audio>	Defines sound content
<source>	Defines multiple media resources for media elements, such as <video> and <audio>