Application of HTML5 multimedia

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for web pages. HTML5 is a new generation of HTML standards. With the development of HTML5, it has wide range of applications in the multimedia direction. This new standard first describes the Video and Audio tag, and then elements of Video and Audio are discussed, pointing out that the support of the current browser to Video and Audio format. Then the advantages and disadvantages of HTML5 and flash are discussed, and it pointed out some applications that HTML5 multimedia cannot achieved. And it also introduces the Working principle of the HTTP Live Streaming. Finally, we discussed the direction of development of HTML5 multimedia in the future. HTTP Live Streaming, Audio Data API and peer-to-Peer Networking will become the focus of application of HTML5 multimedia.