Although the WMediaPlayer implements a cross-browser video player, in some cases, one may want direct access to a native HTML <video> element. This is provided by the WVideo widget.

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Native video

Below is the video class, with a WImage (a static JPEG image) as fallback. The video will play on browsers that support MP4 or OGV video streams (firefox, chrome, safari, ...) natively (using HTML <video>), and show the image on other browsers (Internet Explorer, opera, ...).

Native video with Flash player fall-back

For browsers that support HTML <video>, this video below looks exactly like the one above. On other browsers, the player below falls back to a Flash player, which plays an MP4 video. If flash is not supported on your system, a static image is shown.

The Flash-based video player can be any player. The example below uses FLV Player as fallback for HTML5 video, but any flash player can do the job.

Flash-player video

Of course, you may also opt to simply rely on Flash to play the video. Below we use the YouTube flash player.