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CHAPTER 7 ■ INFOWINDOW TIPS AND TRICKS<br />

Figure 7-5. The HTML5 video player in <strong>Google</strong> Chrome on Windows<br />

Two other useful attributes are width and height. With these you control the size of the video. If you<br />

omit them, the video player will default to the size of the video being played.<br />

Supported Video Formats<br />

You might have noticed the name of the video file being used. It’s of the type Ogg Theora video codec,<br />

which is why it has the suffix .ogv, for Ogg Vorbis Video. It’s an open source format.<br />

“Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation.<br />

Like all our multimedia technology it can be used to distribute film and video online<br />

and on disc without the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with<br />

other formats.”<br />

—From http://theora.org/<br />

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