Exercise 2: Audio and Video Formats

• Download this file or find a .mov on your file system (like from your digital camera).
• Use Miro Video Converter to encode the file into enough formats so that your site will work on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
• Download the encoded files into your project folder.
• Create an audio tag to embed the audio, using multiple source tags to specify each file format. Make sure it plays on each browser.
• Download an uncompressed video file (avi, flv, etc)
• Use Miro Video Converter to encode the file into enough formats so that your site to work on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
• Download the encoded files into your project folder.
• Create a video tag to embed the audio, using multiple source tags to specify each file format. Make sure it plays on each browser.
• Bonus:Download JWPlayer and put the player.swf in your project folder. Add a flash fallback to your video tag. Specify the src URL like "player.swf?videoUrl=sayHello.mp3&autoPlay=true"
• Bonus:Try recording a video on your smartphone and figuring out how to get that encoded and on your webpage.