Comments on: Using HTML5 video in ePub

By: Vasu

Vasu — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:29:37 +0000

I followed Koan-Sin Tan advice and now I using below code, we are able to play video’s in iBooks

Code for Video:
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Hello World: My First EPUB

Hello World: My First EPUB
This is the content of my first EPUB book.
The following is an HTML5 video. The iBooks.app for iPad is amazing. It can display the HTML5 video without problem.

if video tag doesn’t work for you, you’ll see this line

By: Vasu

Vasu — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:09:23 +0000

Hello,
Apple’s iBook New In Version 1.1.2 supports Video and Audio
“• Experience books that include audio and video.”

Can any one help me with how to embed video into ePub’s I did try using the Video.ePub provided by Liza, but I was only able to see a Black Box in iBooks, I was not able to play the video.

Any help or inputs appreciated.

Thanks
Vasu

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By: A.E.Arthic Leo

A.E.Arthic Leo — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:06:47 +0000

Hi Liza,,,

thanks for your reply…..

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:08:40 +0000

It’s likely that iBooks would support the HTML5 audio tag as it does HTML5 video, but that would not be a valid epub book.

By: Arthic Leo

Arthic Leo — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:30:54 +0000

Hi Liza,

Could you please advise is there any reading devices or e-readers that would support audio embedded ePUB files other than ADE. If yes, will it read the audio file? Please advise.

Regards,
A.E.Arthic leo

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:43:03 +0000

Hi Tenaka,

I haven’t experimented with multiple videos, but make sure that they are both listed in the OPF manifest and have different ids.

By: tenaka

tenaka — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:07:07 +0000

Hello Liza,

Thank you for your great work !

I’ve managed to insert a video on a epub and read it properly on my ipad but…

when I want to add another video, let’s say 2-3 pages further, i come with a blank space.

I used the same code as the first one, aka :

if video tag doesn’t work for you, you’ll see this line

My guess is that ibooks, or the epub format isn’t able to deal more than one video or tha it thinks that it is the same one.

Maybe we could add some id tag to the code but, I confess, I’m kinda new at this and have no professional knowledge in html.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:12:59 +0000

You can’t. There’s no method that will work on all platforms.

By: voddou

voddou — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:04:07 +0000

Thanks. So if I want to create an Epub with a video readable with ADE, Kindle, Ipad,…, How can I do ?…