IE 9 beta released , mainly focusing on HTML 5 and hardware support for videos and pictures embedded in webpage. you can read more from here
HTML5 - feature I liked is <video> tag. Using this <Video> tag, you can show videos to your site visitors without any plugin requirement from their browser side.
For example, you want to show FLV video, your site vistior browser have flash plugin installed. With html5 support now your site visitor can see FLV video without installing flash plugin.
At present drawback is lack of standards. Each browser supports different video formats but NOT a common, single video format support by all browsers.
Source: http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html [Excellent page, if want to learn more about <video> tag ]
| Codecs/container | IE | Firefox | Safari | Chrome | Opera | iPhone | Android |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theora+Vorbis+Ogg | · | 3.5+ | † | 5.0+ | 10.5+ | · | · |
| H.264+AAC+MP4 | 9.0+ | · | 3.0+ | 5.0+ | · | 3.0+ | 2.0+ |
| WebM | 9.0+* | 4.0+ | † | 6.0+ | 10.6+ | · | ‡ |
Now the trick part: How to embed video which can work in all browsers? Solution is – You need to encode your video in different formats and embed all of them.
example:
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="pr6.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"'>
<source src="pr6.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"'>
<source src="pr6.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
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