PUBLIC MARKS with tags video & html5

Android's WebView and WebChromeClient class extensions that enable fully working HTML5 video support

This January, we teamed up with Dick's Sporting Goods to launch Gear in Action, a digital lookbook featuring products for the 2014 Baseball season. As you can see on this page of the finished site, video of the products in action displays at full height and width. This occurs regardless of browser size, and without distorting the video's original aspect ratio.

My article on using CSS to position HTML5 videos as fullscreen web page backgrounds has proven to be one of the most popular on this site, but the technique has a significant challenge in that it forces users to host their own videos, or to find a service to do so.

WebVTT is associated with subtitling HTML5 video, but the spec contains many additional features that aren’t related to dialogue. One of the most useful of these is the ability to read and link to video cue points. Creating WebVTT chapter tracks deepens viewer’s engagement with more informative content, while adding invaluable accessibility and UI features. Best of all, they’re easy to create.

All existing adaptive HTTP streaming technologies, such as the proprietary Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS), and the only international standardized solution MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) follow nearly the same principle.

Media Mogul serves to be a front end HTML 5 media feature package. Allowing you to get up and running with audio, video and itunes podcasting with click or two.

Gfycat is gif hosting, with three unique advantages:

Send live or pre-recorded audio and video to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac using an ordinary web server. Designed for mobility, HTTP Live Streaming can dynamically adjust movie playback quality to match the available speed of wired or wireless networks. HTTP Live Streaming is great for delivering streaming media to an iOS app or HTML5-based website.

Enhance your products with live, face-to-face communication.

PeerJS wraps the browser's WebRTC implementation to provide a complete, configurable, and easy-to-use peer-to-peer connection API. Equipped with nothing but an ID, a peer can create a P2P data or media stream connection to a remote peer.

You can build cool stuff with WebRTC in five minutes. Want to see what this library can do? Talky.io is powered by SimpleWebRTC! Or checkout the demo (note that screensharing won't work because HTTPS is required.)

Video chat with your friends (and/or customers) on Twitter with only a web browser!

When I build my Instant Webcam App, I was searching for solution to stream live video from the iPhone's Camera to browsers. There were none.