https://blog.bitsrc.io/5-open-source-html5-video-players-for-2018-38fa85932afb

When HTML5 introduced the and tags, they made your media files genuinely accessible to the Internet. HTML5 videos are fast replacing Flash Player and other similar third-party media players. Historically, it’s been quite a cumbersome process to get media to play correctly. Often the and tags would need to be used which would assign an extensive list of parameters to get the media playback working.

The difference with HTML5’s audio and video tags is that they consider the files as images. Attributes like height, width and autoplay can be defined in the tags similar to any other HTML element –