Video Formats
Explore the key video formats supported in HTML5 including MP4, Ogg Theora, and WebM. Understand the role of video and audio codecs, container formats, and browser compatibility challenges to effectively embed videos in your web pages for a richer user experience.
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Although the early versions of the HTML5 recommendations suggested several specific video and audio formats that every browser should support, the standard does not require any specific format. This means that browsers are free to choose the supported video and audio formats.
Supporting a certain video format actually means accommodating to three standards: the video codec, which is responsible for decoding the compressed video into a stream of ...