HTML Video Tag

HTML 5 supports <video> tag also. The HTML video tag is used for streaming video files such as a movie clip, song clip on the web page.

Currently, there are three video formats supported for HTML video tag:

1. mp4
2. webM
3. ogg

Let's see the table that defines which web browser supports video file format.

Browser	mp4	webM	ogg
Internet Explorer	yes	no	no
Google Chrome	yes	yes	yes
Mozilla Firefox	yes	yes	yes
Opera	no	yes	yes
Apple Safari	yes	no	no

Android also supports mp4 format.

HTML Video Tag Example

Let's see the code to play mp4 file using HTML video tag.

  

1.   <video controls><source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">  
2.   Your browser does not support the html video tag.  
3. </video>  

Let's see the example to play ogg file using HTML video tag.

1. <video controls>  
2.    <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">  
3.   Your browser does not support the html video tag.  
4. </video>