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Beginning HTML5 Media

Make the most of the new video and audio standards for the Web

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  • Beginning HTML5 Media, Second Edition is an updated comprehensive guide to HTML5 Video and Audio for the new technologies that allow browsers to support audio and video elements natively.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Encoding Video

    • Silvia Pfeiffer, Tom Green
    Pages 1-24
  3. Using and Manipulating HTML5 Video and Audio Elements

    • Silvia Pfeiffer, Tom Green
    Pages 25-66
  4. The JavaScript API

    • Silvia Pfeiffer, Tom Green
    Pages 67-127
  5. Accessibility, Internationalization, and Navigation

    • Silvia Pfeiffer, Tom Green
    Pages 129-189
  6. HTML5 Video and Canvas

    • Silvia Pfeiffer, Tom Green
    Pages 191-226
  7. Manipulating Audio Through the Web Audio API

    • Silvia Pfeiffer, Tom Green
    Pages 227-276
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 277-281

About this book

Beginning HTML5 Media, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to HTML5 video and audio. The HTML5 video standard enables browsers to support audio and video elements natively. This makes it very easy for web developers to publish audio and video, integrating both within the general presentation of web pages. For example, media elements can be styled using CSS (style sheets), viewed on a mobile device, and manipulated in a Canvas or an audio filter graph. The book offers techniques for providing accessibility to media elements, enabling consistent handling of alternative representations of media resources. The update includes all of the changes and revisions since the first HTML5 draft.

Beginning HTML5 Media dives deep into the markup that is introduced for media element support in browsers. You’ll explore the default user interface offered through browsers for media elements, as well as the JavaScript API provided to control their behavior. You’ll also learn how to account for H.264, WebM and Ogg Theora codecs as well as explore the emerging Web Audio API standard, which provides an extensive set of hardware-accelerated audio filters to achieve a level of audio signal manipulation in the browser previously only available to audio professionals.

About the authors

Dr. Silvia Pfeiffer has worked on novel media technology for more than 15 years and is an internationally renowned expert in new Web video standards. Silvia is originally from Germany, but now lives in Australia.

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eBook USD 34.99
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Softcover Book USD 44.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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