HTML5 video on Android is still a hot mess, and can be frustrating if you’re trying to make your videos playable on as many devices as possible. I’ve struggled with this in the past, and have settled on the following method to solve my problem.
I used the Universal Video plugin and modified it to add a link to the video for mobile devices. It may not be the most elegant of solutions, but as far as I can tell it’s been working great so far.[...]
You can greatly increase the accessibility of your HTML5 videos if you add text captions to them. Doing so would enable visitors with hearing disabilities to enjoy your video content. There are several ways of adding captions to videos, but I will detail one of the simplest. A few things to keep in mind are: [...]
I finally got around to updating the Universal Video plugin for WordPress yesterday. Not a lot changed in the updated version (0.7), I mostly just updated the Flowplayer files in it. The changes in the current version of UV include: Flowplayer 3.2.7 is used Some unnecessary code was stripped out The plugin can be downloaded [...]
Are your Google Chrome HTML5 video controls grayed out or looking wonky? You can probably fix this by modifying your stylesheet. A few months ago I noticed that almost every HTML5 video I posted on any blog of mine looked fine in every browser except for Google Chrome. The video controls in Chrome were grayed [...]
With the increased popularity of online video combined with the massive adoption of mobile internet devices, html5 video is quickly becoming the desired standard in online video. Even though html5 video could (and should) replace flash video in most cases, its adoption among bloggers is slowed in part simply because most bloggers find embedding html5 [...]
How are you including videos on your website? Are you still using flash to embed them or have you switched to html5? With the state of the internet today it makes sense to use the video playback features already included in modern web browsers and revert to flash playback only when necessary. This is true [...]
I did a small update to the Universal Video plugin this afternoon. Not a lot was changed in this release, but a requested feature has been included. Now that iOS has been updated to 4, it should be safe to include poster images with HTML5 video and not prevent playback on devices such as the [...]
In case you haven’t heard, I released a plugin for easily embedding HTML5 video in WordPress blogs. I think you’ll find that adding video to your blog will be super easy with the aid of this plugin, and it will probably encourage you to use video more often. HTML5 video is a little different than [...]