How It Works
If your browser supports it, HTML5 video is used. No Flash—no crash.
HTML5 video in Firefox,Chrome
In other browsers that do not support video, it falls back to Flash, or Window Web Media player.
If QuickTime is not installed, Adobe Flash is used. It’s important to note that the user is not prompted to install QuickTime if they don’t have it. Fallback is instant and automatic.
Flash fallback, (Flowplayer)
(which allows playback on the iPhone OS 2; OS 3 and above, Ipad use HTML5 video)

This is all done without JavaScript and requires only two video encodes, one OGG file (required for FireFox to play, and one MP4 file). A little javascript is used for Flash Fallback only.
Firefox will only play OGG, and it will not degrade to Flash if you leave out the OGG video
IMPORTANT Notes
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For each video, you need to have the same video in 2 formats: .MP4, and .OGV and a Poster image .JPG , all in the same names You can upload all files (different videos, MP4s, OGVs, JPGs) using FTP to a folder on your site. and then using the module to select that folder. You can select which is a default video to play by enter a Video ID at the end of the interface (as shown bellow) or select video on querystring like http://www.dnn360.net/Default.aspx?tabid=1932&fid=2407 By using querystring, you can make a simple playlist on your page with links to play videos on the same page. 
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SUPPORTED DEVICES
This is tested well in Ipad, Iphone, Android, Firefox, Chrome,Safari... in HTML5Video form. In IE it fallback automatically to flash. IE9, eventhough it states that support HTML5 Video but in many IE9 browsers are still experiencing issue when viewing an video element event with famous sites like youtube, vimeo . So for safe reason until we reach a nicer solution, this player choose flash for IE for now.
This HTML5Video option will work only with .MP4, and one .OGV file , which required for Firefox.
MP4, OGV format can be converted using tools mentioned in this following link:
http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html
I use Firefogg extension of firefox, which can convert mp4 file to ogv file, that need for firefox. Firefogg can convert video file locally encoded and not uploaded to any server.
Sites use HTML5Video:
http://www.interventions.com/
http://www.prossn.com/video.aspx
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I often use ffmpeg command line tool (http://www.ffmpeg.org/) to convert my videos (H264 encode required)
with this simple line :
ffmpeg -i infile.avi outfile.mp4
ffmpeg -i infile.avi outfile.ogv
Normally it works with most of video format I have (avi,flv, ...) . You can have your commercial convert software if you have. |
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