HTML5 cross-browser playback
The HTML5 <video> tag allows browsers to natively playback video, without needing plugins like Flash, Silverlight or QuickTime. However, HTML5 doesn't specify a video codec and browser vendors have chosen different paths. Currently, Internet Explorer (Microsoft) and Safari (Apple) support H.264, while Firefox (Mozilla), Chrome (Google) and Opera support both VP8 (WebM container) and Theora (Ogg container). Moreover, video codec support may also be different depending on the version of a browser or device.
To avoid HTML5 videos not playing in some browsers or on some devices, Rambla customers can use their default hotfolder. After uploading a video, it will get automatically encoded in all three formats and published side by side at your preferred location on the CDN (using the same filename and a different extension). Developers can use our API's instead.
