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HTML5 Video Stack for Rapidweaver

07/25/2016
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. 

Transcript

00:07 hi this is ryan from wrap we are
00:09 classroom calm and i'd like to introduce
00:10 you to the html5 video stack from joe
00:13 hartmann the stack is used to display
00:15 and present video on your website and it
00:17 uses the html5 video player in any
00:20 browser that will accept that player now
00:22 for older browsers or browsers that do
00:24 not support html5 it will fall back to a
00:27 flash player so it's very flexible in
00:29 how it presents your video and all of
00:31 the adjustments are made through the
00:32 inspector hut in this stack you can see
00:35 how it looks here in edit mode and let's
00:36 jump into the inspector hut where we
00:38 will adjust our settings so first you
00:40 need to tell the stack where your video
00:42 is located and so in this instance I've
00:44 added a video file to my resources here
00:46 in rapidweaver now you need to be using
00:48 an h.264 compatible video and so I've
00:52 got an mp4 called overview mp4 and I'm
00:55 going to use the resource macro and
00:57 rapidweaver to link to that file you can
01:00 also host your file online and then put
01:03 the full URL to that file in that field
01:07 as well next we have a fuel for OGG
01:10 video this is the format that Firefox
01:13 uses for html5 so if you like Firefox to
01:16 display your video with an html5 player
01:18 you'll want to encode your video using
01:20 OGG and then also put a link to that
01:23 version of your video file in this field
01:26 otherwise Firefox will fall back to a
01:28 flash player to display your video you
01:31 will also need to know the settings of
01:33 width and height the dimensions of your
01:35 video so I'm going to set mine here
01:37 which is 546 by 308 and then finally we
01:41 have a few options available autoplay
01:42 which will do that as soon as the page
01:45 loads it will begin to play the video
01:46 loop will restart the video from the
01:50 beginning once it completes show
01:51 controls allows the user to hit play and
01:53 pause and adjust volume and the auto
01:56 buffer for longer videos can be helpful
01:58 to buffer the video before it begins to
02:01 play so that it will not pause in the
02:03 middle finally if you would like to add
02:05 a poster image this is a static image
02:07 that displays before the video is played
02:09 and this is useful if you're not using
02:11 autoplay selecting that
02:13 Shin places an image drop zone directly
02:16 into the stack so I'm going to take a
02:18 poster image that I've created and place
02:20 it right here so that is an overview of
02:23 all of the settings let's jump into
02:24 preview and you will see how this looks
02:26 as you can see the html5 player is
02:30 loaded here we can see the controls
02:31 which include play and pause and the
02:34 volume controls and I do not have it set
02:37 to auto place so at the time I am seeing
02:39 the poster image and then I would hit
02:41 play to load the video and begin and so
02:44 that is the html5 video stack from Joe
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