Question

How is it possible to play a video stored on the web through HTML5?
For example, this video http://www.cybertechmedia.com/samplevideos.html

And I need to play it. How can I refer to it?

I thought:

var video = getDocumentById('videoPreview');
video.myFile = ???;

What shall I refer to myFile with? Or shall I use something else?

Answer 1

See the chapter on video in Dive into HTML 5 for the long answer.

The short answer is:

How is it possible to play a video stored on the web through HTML5?

In supporting browsers, use the <video> element and set the src to point to the URI

For example, this video http://www.cybertechmedia.com/samplevideos.html

But not those videos as they aren’t stored in formats that browsers support.