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The TypoScript way

After a HTML5 Video content element was placed onto a page, it will be rendered using the brand new VIDEO content object. You can take advantage of this circumstance to embed HTML5 videos with only a few lines of TypoScript – without the need of any content element. This is particularly beneficial if you want to display static videos which never should be maintained by backend users.

This method works in every environment, regardless of whether the HTML5 Video content element is available or not – allowing you to embed HTML5 videos even when working with XHTML 1.0 Strict document type.

Note: Like the content element itself, the VIDEO content object requires at least one out of the three main video formats (MP4, WebM, Ogg) to be set. Otherwise nothing will be generated in the frontend.