Browser Support for Video Codecs and Containers
Choose the Correct Combination to Get Your Video Seen
You can use the video tag in HTML 5 to embed videos directly into your Web pages. But you need to make sure you embed at least two different encodings because not all browsers support the same ones.
| Browser | Theora (video) Vorbis (audio) Ogg (container) | H.264 (video) AAC (audio) MP4 (container) |
|---|---|---|
| Firefox 3.5 | yes | no |
| Opera 10.5 | yes | no |
| Chrome 3.0 | yes | yes |
| Safari 3 and 4 | no | yes (H.264 main profile) |
| iPhone and Android | no | yes (H.264 baseline profile and AAC low complexity profile) |
| Flash 9 | no | yes - when converted to an FLV or F4V file |
| Internet Explorer 7 and 8* | no | no |
* Internet Explorer does not support the <video> HTML 5 tag. To add video to IE, you need to include a Flash fallback option.
