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HTML5 Video Stack for Rapidweaver

The HTML5 video stack utilizes the latest HTML5 technologies to play video on your site without flash! Unfortunately, not all browsers natively support HTML5. Therefore, this stack will fall back to a flash based player for browsers that do not support HTML5. Check out the HTML5 Video Stack at https://joeworkman.net/rapidweaver/st...The HTML5 video stack utilizes the latest HTML5 technologies to play video on your site without flash! Unfortunately, not all browsers natively support HTML5. Therefore, this stack will fall back to a flash based player for browsers that do not support HTML5. 

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0:07 hi this is ryan from wrap we are
0:09 classroom calm and i'd like to introduce
0:10 you to the html5 video stack from joe
0:13 hartmann the stack is used to display
0:15 and present video on your website and it
0:17 uses the html5 video player in any
0:20 browser that will accept that player now
0:22 for older browsers or browsers that do
0:24 not support html5 it will fall back to a
0:27 flash player so it's very flexible in
0:29 how it presents your video and all of
0:31 the adjustments are made through the
0:32 inspector hut in this stack you can see
0:35 how it looks here in edit mode and let's
0:36 jump into the inspector hut where we
0:38 will adjust our settings so first you
0:40 need to tell the stack where your video
0:42 is located and so in this instance I've
0:44 added a video file to my resources here
0:46 in rapidweaver now you need to be using
0:48 an h.264 compatible video and so I've
0:52 got an mp4 called overview mp4 and I'm
0:55 going to use the resource macro and
0:57 rapidweaver to link to that file you can
1:00 also host your file online and then put
1:03 the full URL to that file in that field
1:07 as well next we have a fuel for OGG
1:10 video this is the format that Firefox
1:13 uses for html5 so if you like Firefox to
1:16 display your video with an html5 player
1:18 you'll want to encode your video using
1:20 OGG and then also put a link to that
1:23 version of your video file in this field
1:26 otherwise Firefox will fall back to a
1:28 flash player to display your video you
1:31 will also need to know the settings of
1:33 width and height the dimensions of your
1:35 video so I'm going to set mine here
1:37 which is 546 by 308 and then finally we
1:41 have a few options available autoplay
1:42 which will do that as soon as the page
1:45 loads it will begin to play the video
1:46 loop will restart the video from the
1:50 beginning once it completes show
1:51 controls allows the user to hit play and
1:53 pause and adjust volume and the auto
1:56 buffer for longer videos can be helpful
1:58 to buffer the video before it begins to
2:01 play so that it will not pause in the
2:03 middle finally if you would like to add
2:05 a poster image this is a static image
2:07 that displays before the video is played
2:09 and this is useful if you're not using
2:11 autoplay selecting that
2:13 Shin places an image drop zone directly
2:16 into the stack so I'm going to take a
2:18 poster image that I've created and place
2:20 it right here so that is an overview of
2:23 all of the settings let's jump into
2:24 preview and you will see how this looks
2:26 as you can see the html5 player is
2:30 loaded here we can see the controls
2:31 which include play and pause and the
2:34 volume controls and I do not have it set
2:37 to auto place so at the time I am seeing
2:39 the poster image and then I would hit
2:41 play to load the video and begin and so
2:44 that is the html5 video stack from Joe
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