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allowed attributes, then the various encoding issues, and finally how to
convert between file formats
.
Standard
The sample video
The sample video used in this section's examples is of the au-
thor playing American football. Because this video was taken
by the author's mother, we can neatly sidestep any issues in-
volving media distribution rights.
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9.0
<video> element attributes
The
<video>
element supports the same attributes as the
<audio>
element, with similar results. This section
quickly runs through them in the same way as the sec-
tion on audio.
10.5
4.0
The basic
<video>
element looks like this:
<video src="00092.webm"></video>
A
<video>
element without controls is a lit-
tle more interesting than the equivalent
<audio>
element because you at least have
the first frame of the video to look at. This
screenshot was taken in Firefox; Opera
and Chrome should work just as well for
the WebM format.
