Html5 video/audio: Some ramblings based on the little I may have learned so far.

So far, I would have to believe that the best browser for html5 video/audio is, hands down, Chrome. Firefox is a close second, and perhaps it is a tie. I have, with some difficulty, been able to create html5 code that will create an audio/video player that works most of the time (unless/until it stops working, which happened once) in both of those browsers. Opera is third. Does Opera not support mp3? I don't know, but there is some reason my one file in mp3 format doesn't play in Opera. Internet Explorer is too hard to know. Perhaps the newest version will play some of my audio/video creations. Maybe not though.

Song: Tired and Worn Down, attempt from different source

Trying to see if I can use a different source for the html5 audio file. I also am continuing to work on getting these to play in Internet Explorer. So Far these attempts work using Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. I would guess Safari would work, but don't know for sure. So, if you do not see the audio player, your browser does not support my best attempts so far at html5 video and audio. The source is bandcamp.Update: This one doesn't seem to play using Opera. It would seem now that the best source I've used for the file, the one that plays in the most browsers, is Internet Archive. Update 2:Well, I'm going to have to work on this one. Hmmm..it worked the other day.Update 3: As of August 9th, this worked using Chrome and Firefox, but not Opera.I think that may be because the file is mp3. Opera only works with free format? I don't know. The source is now Internet Archive, which seems to work best so far.

HTML5: If it works in IE, It might not in Firefox

It seems, as best as this humble novice html code writer can discover, that if you use mp4 video as the source, Internet Explorer might play the video. Then, all of a sudden, Firefox might not. Chrome seems to play all the formats. It all has to do with the format surely now. So, three browsers will play OGV and WebM, while IE needs it to be in mp4 format. And a lot of people still use IE. Tomorrow, I'll try to sort this out so my videos and audios play on all browsers.

Html5 Video and Audio attempts so far

So far, I've managed (as far as I can tell) to get both html5 simple audio and video player working for Chrome, Firefox (at least with the html5 extension), and Opera. The audio seems to play in some tablets and phones, but perhaps not others. The video will not work on a tablet or phone. Nothing works on Internet Explorer thus far.

I believe, especially in the case of IE, it is a matter of finding sort of the right codec, like maybe mp3/mp4 rather than anything else. I will be testing that theory within the next few days. And if I am wrong, I guess it is back to figuring out the problem with IE. But I'm pretty sure it is the file type.

Either way, even if only for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera users - I would like to get most of my audio and video creations up on this blog using this method. If only for the fun of it. I also have some ideas about using html5 for other things, but I'm far from being able to accomplish any of these more complex projects yet. Hopefully, I will at least be moving forward from here. See previous posts for what I've been able to accomplish so far. It isn't much, but I humbly submit my very simple attempts for those who may have an interest.