Video Formats

In this lesson, we will cover the three different video formats that are commonly used. Let's begin!

We'll cover the following...

Although the early versions of the HTML5 recommendations suggested several specific video and audio formats that every browser should support, the standard does not require any specific format. This means that browsers are free to choose the supported video and audio formats.

Supporting a certain video format actually means accommodating to three standards: the video codec, which is responsible for decoding the compressed video into a stream of ...