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Title: HTML Video Playback | Rookie Tutorial
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There are many ways to play videos in HTML.
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## HTML Video Playback
## Example
[Try it yourself »](
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## Problems and Solutions
Playing videos in HTML is not easy!
You need to be familiar with a lot of techniques to ensure your video files can play in all browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera) and on all hardware (PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone).
In this chapter, Rookie Tutorial summarizes the problems and solutions for you.
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## Using the Tag
The purpose of the tag is to embed multimedia elements into an HTML page.
The following HTML code shows a Flash video embedded in a webpage:
## Example
[Try it yourself »](
**Problems**
* HTML4 does not recognize the tag. Your page will not validate.
* If the browser does not support Flash, the video will not play.
* iPad and iPhone cannot display Flash videos.
* Even if you convert the video to another format, it still won't play in all browsers.
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## Using the
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