I’m preparing a webpage with a video. I’d like to make it compatible with a wide range of devices, so I inserted a HTML5 <video> tag with a Flash Player fall-back (FLV video file) for incompatible browsers (mostly Internet Explorer < 9).
For the HTML5 video I converted my video in MP4/H.264 and in WebM/VP8. According to Wikipedia, H.264 is used by:
- Internet Explorer
- Google Chrome
- Safari (iOS+Desktop)
- Android browser
While VP8 is compatible with:
- Firefox
- Opera
- (again) Chrome and Android
It seems that everything is covered (talking about today’s last versions of the browsers), with the Flash fall-back for older ones.
Can I skip the OGG version of the video, considering that MP4 + WebM seem to be enough?
I’m sorry for you, but yes, for full compatibility .ogg is required. I tried to create a page in my website for sharing my videos just with h.264 and webM, But lots of smartphones can’t play them.
There are many free ogg converters (one of them as an example) available if you need one.