Embedding a Video file

You can embed a video that you have on file into your DITA source document.

To embed a video from your file directory:

1. Create the an object tag for the video, for example: <object> </object>

2. Next you are going to want to specify certain attributes for your video object

If want to set a stylename, set the outputclass attribute to whatever stylename you want to give it.

Specify what width and height you want to give to your video in the width and height attributes

Set the data attribute to the path to the video file relative to the source file

For example: <object outputclass="Foo" width="560" height="320" data="../../Video/small.mp4"> </object>

3. Optional: if you want controls on your video include the following param tag inside your object tag: <param name=”controls” value=”true”>

The following is a fully working code example of the following steps:

<object outputclass="Foo" width="560" height="320" data="../../Video/small.mp4">

  <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />

  <param name="controls" value="true" />

</object>

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Last modified date: 02/10/2023