Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Digital Media Player, Theora, Bit Rate

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Vivi Tryphonopolous

Document Summary

Inserting video into webpage using html5: html5 supports . Apple and microsoft only support h. 264 codec (mp4) H. 264 is lossy, but can also do lossless. Royalty free, open source, backed by google. Originally wanted theora or vorbis codecs (. ogg containers: open source, apple didn"t want open source, html5 video formats. Standards good compression, good quality, royalty free, hardware video decodes as well as software. Works on handheld devices too: video on website. Muted wait until is it played to start audio. Poster shows picture on top until you press start. Important terms: container file format file format that stores both data (frames) and how to play the data (which codec to use) (ex. avi) Mp4 allows subtitles: digital media player piece of software that plays multimedia files but not necessarily in a browser. Most players will play variety of file formats.