The easiest way to play videos in HTML, is to use YouTube.
Struggling with Video Formats?
Converting videos to different formats can be difficult and time-consuming.
An easier solution is to let YouTube play the videos in your web page.
YouTube Video Id
YouTube will display an id (like tgbNymZ7vqY), when you save (or play) a video.
You can use this id, and refer to your video in the HTML code.
Playing a YouTube Video in HTML
To play your video on a web page, do the following:
- Upload the video to YouTube
- Take a note of the video id
- Define an
<iframe>element in your web page - Let the
srcattribute point to the video URL - Use the
widthandheightattributes to specify the dimension of the player - Add any other parameters to the URL (see below)
Example
<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY">
</iframe>
YouTube Autoplay + Mute
You can let your video start playing automatically when a user visits the page, by adding autoplay=1 to the YouTube URL. However, automatically starting a video is annoying for your visitors!
Note: Chromium browsers do not allow autoplay in most cases. However, muted autoplay is always allowed.
Add mute=1 after autoplay=1 to let your video start playing automatically (but muted).
YouTube - Autoplay + Muted
<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY?autoplay=1&mute=1">
</iframe>
YouTube Playlist
A comma separated list of videos to play (in addition to the original URL).
YouTube Loop
Add playlist=videoID and loop=1 to let your video loop forever.
loop=0 (default) - The video will play only once.
loop=1 - The video will loop (forever).
YouTube - Loop forever
<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY?playlist=tgbNymZ7vqY&loop=1">
</iframe>
YouTube Controls
Add controls=0 to NOT display controls in the video player.
controls=0 - Player controls does not display.
controls=1 (default) - Player controls is displayed.
YouTube - Controls
<iframe width="420" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY?controls=0">
</iframe>
