JavaScript multimedia basically used to include any movies, audios, text, and music, etc in the web application. To use these multimedia objects in web application JavaScript provide a way, that is known as JavaScript multimedia. In this case, multimedia in JavaScript having a navigator object which includes child objects named plug-ins. These plug-ins are of array type and contain one entry of each plug-in installed on the browser. Plug-ins are small programs that extend the functionality of a browser. Plug-ins: This are added to an HTML page using <embed> and <object> tag.
- Using <embed> tag:
<embed height="600" width="400" src="vd.mp4"> </embed>
- Using <object> tag:
<object height="600" width="400" src="vd.mp4"> </object>
Property values: The plug-in contain some property described below:
- Name: This is a name of the field.
- Filename: This is the name of the file which is being execute to install the plug-in.
- Description: It is the description of the plug-in.
- mimeTypes: It is an array with one entry for each MIME type supported by the plug-in.
To find all the plug-ins installed in a browser:
- Program:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>
Find all the plug-ins
installed in a browser
</title>
</head><body> <table border="2px" align ="center">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Filename</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<script>
for (i = 0; i<navigator.plugins.length; i++) {
// Row wise printing
document.write("<tr><td>");
document.write(navigator.plugins[i].name);
// Print name of the field
document.write("</td><td>");
document.write(navigator.plugins[i].filename);
// Print the executable filename
document.write("</td><td>");
document.write(navigator.plugins[i].description );
// Print description of the plug-in
document.write("</td></tr>");
}
</script>
</table>
</body></html> |
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Output:
Playing a video using <video> tag: In this case, we need to add play, pause button to play and pause video. If we don’t add those button then the video is not being played or paused. The <video> tag is only used for add a video in a particular section in the HTML page.
- Program:
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>
Playing a video using video tag
</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="javascript">
function playPause() {
var a = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];
if (a.paused)
a.play();
else
a.pause();
}
</script>
<center>
<video src=
width="600" height="200">
</video>
<br>
<button type="button" onclick="playPause()">
Play and Pause
</button>
</center>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Playing a video using <embed> tag: In this case, using <embed> tag is no need to add any types of button or option by which the video is played or paused. Using <embed> tag is automatically add the play or paused button in the video like YouTube. So this the advantage of using <embed> tag.
- Program:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><body> <center>
<embed src=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20200110154656/20191210_115921.mp4"
width="600" height="400">
</center>
</body></html> |
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Output:
Note: Below is the other two procedures where JavaScript is not required. Playing a video using <iframe> tag: We can also link YouTube video in a web page using <iframe> tag. Which is a part of <embed> tag:
- Program:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><body> <center>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src=
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/lcJzw0JGfeE"
frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
encrypted-media; gyroscope;
picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</center>
</body></html> |
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Output: