Video backgrounds on websites

Amik

Hi all:

Can please someone point me to some information on how to create video backgrounds? For example, what you see when you visit paypal.com on a desktop.

Is it HTML5 at work?

me_irl

Using Chrome, you can use the "Inspect Element" feature.

Here's what I found...

Trojan

I experimented with this for a client but we ended up going with a static photo in the end.

The video is often webm format, which seems to run about 40% of the size of an equivalent mp4. It wasn't easy to create the webm, the converters often produced a broken file format.

It's nice but I'd only use it on a site homepage where there are a limited number of simple actions that can be taken (i.e. login or register).

Amik

Appreciate the quick and informative replies, guys!

I had an idea for using this for an internal page here at work to give it more life. True it would get annoying on a page other than login or register.

Thanks again!