Hyperbook Documentation

Video

Video element to allow easy display of videos on Hyperbook via HTML's The Video Embed element.

The <video> tag is supported by all modern browsers, see Browser compatibility for more detail.

Attributes

Attribute Description Default
src URL or path to the video file -
title Video title shown below the player -
author Video author shown below the player -
poster Image shown before playback starts -

Local file

::video{src="/clouds.mp4" poster="/clouds.jpg" title="Morgenwolken" author="Natureclip (CC-BY 3.0)"}
Morgenwolken-Natureclip (CC-BY 3.0)

Remote file

::video{src="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerEscapes.mp4" poster="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/images/ForBiggerEscapes.jpg" title="For Bigger Escape" author="By Google"}
For Bigger Escape-By Google
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