HTML5 Video

What is HTML5 video
Many of you are familiar with online video, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Hulu. How about ? What does it have to do with HTML5?

HTML
HTML is the basis of almost every page on the internet. For example, if I were writing the homepage to my first website, I would write:

The web browser (Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, AOL, and others) converts this code into a page with text and a button.

Multimedia and HTML
In 1993, images were added HTML pages. Here's the original proposal for an tag.

Many years later, discussions started about adding a tag, too. Most online videos play in Adobe Flash or Windows Media Player or Quicktime. A YouTube video can be added to a blog and users can click to play or pause. But the web browser only sees ("show Adobe Flash here"). I compare this to getting a scanned PDF. You can see it, but the computer can't. So you can't copy-paste, or search, or add up a column of numbers, or click links, or reply to an e-mail address.

HTML5 is a set of new tags and functions for HTML. Open-source web browsers were the first to explore running audio and video on their own, inside new and tags. This makes it possible to access and edit the media directly, make your page interact with the video, create different-shaped frames, and many other cool tricks.

Additional Libraries
Popcorn.js is a free library that puts to work without being too technical. You can see examples and documentation at http://popcornjs.org

You create events such as: 10 seconds in, show a map of Paris; 20 seconds in, show my Flickr photos; add subtitles that can be translated to the viewers' language... The WebMadeMovies project has developed a few demos that you'll see in the next few days, and we hope it'll inspire you to make your mark on this new technology.