Song:Trouble in district 13

This is from a while back, but I still think it came out well enough. Steel String acoustic guitar and vocals, with overdub lead acoustic guitar as well. So far, I believe this way of doing it only works using Google Chrome.

audio, video, and html code - too many choices

Now that I know several ways of posting audio or video, using html audio or video tag, or various ways to embed either audio or video, I can't really decide how it should be done. I suppose I could use various sources, doing a little of each method at different times. Is it best just to use YouTube or Vimeo to embed video? Should i always use html audio or video tag to do it? should I use an embed code? Which source am I most comfortable using?

These are all questions to be answered to if I wish to continue posting, but likely I'll still use this blog to practice whichever way is hardest for me to accomplish, and do what is easier on other blog spaces.

Out of curiosity, a video attempt the same way

Since it has been so long since I've tried to embed or share a Google Drive video, I'll attempt to re-learn the process here. From what I remember, Google made that quite easy to do, unless something has changed. It is especially easy on a Google sites, if not as easy on blogger. It might be as simple as having the link. One thing to keep in mind is that the links have to be set to share on Drive itself. this can be done in the Google Drive settings. Let's see...



So far, it appears to work. It was harder than just having the link. The embed code is still needed.This one of my songs called, "Little Bird Fly Away." Sorry for being at all commercial on this blog, but I feel like I have to use my own music mostly because of copyright issues.

fly away(song) test of different audio source

It seems to me this worked before, then stopped working. So, I thought I'd try it again. There is no reason the link should stop working over time, but maybe that is what really happens. Well, something weird happened with the html in between. I've never seen such a long message about how my code can't be accepted. It took up the page, and I had to go back and start again. We'll see if this keeps working. I might start using this blog more just to put up music, video, and images - just because I like the way the design finally came out. That is, unless the technical problems overwhelm me. Blogger...sigh...
Apparently, this source does expire after a day or so. I'll leave it to remind me of what doesn't work.  Maybe, I'll put the song up separately at a later time.

Update: I've decided to use a source that will work. I couldn't leave it as is.

cleaner blog look?

Maybe I'll take out some of the CSS, and go for a cleaner look? Cleaner look is in they tell me. I'll have to think about it though. I've gotten used to it this way, and change can sometimes not be good. (Sometimes it can, it depends on the circumstance.)

IA Embed and different browsers, and Opera looks good lately

Really Firefox? Crying about a plugin? Firefox can not display the embed of the Internet Archive document viewer without a plugin. Opera could see everything, and the video and audio looked especially good too. I guess Chrome is still the best browser if you want to be able to see everything, but the version of Opera that is available for Linux is actually really good too. It might have to get used more. Maybe. Seems to me there were a few sites that didn't like it, though. I'll have to check it out some more first.

But Chrome is what can see all the audio/video/embed/other. opera seems super fast though. Hmm...

Test of IA book embed

This is mainly a test of writing my own embed code (rather than iframe) to embed a digital book from Internet Archive. Hope it works. From the preview, it doesn't seem to work the way I imagined.

test of bluefish editor

This is just a test of using "BlueFish" editor for html and transfer to blog or site.

Here is some more text in a paragraph tag

This audio is wav format, and might not play in all players

ok

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.

html5 writing and video attempt

I am trying to learn how to code in html5 adding the video element. However, it is difficult to find a source that will actually play.This one that I think now works comes from the Internet Archive, and is under the Creative Copyright listed for this video. Attribution: Coffeehouse_tch_142 by Mark Cohen.Seems to work in Chrome. Works in Firefox with html5 extension. Might work on some tablets and phones. Doesn't work in IE. Appropriate links to give credit: https://archive.org/details/coffeehouse_tch_142 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Sometimes,I don't know why, this post craps out. Just refresh the browser until it plays.