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Conclusion

As seen, media streaming on the web has improved significantly. Back in the early 1990's, we had to use specialized software and needed fast networking to get video to stream over the internet. Now, we are able to just simply incorporate the video in the folder with our HTML code, and call it out as something that we want to display on the screen. While the default implementation in HTML5 is good enough for just simply placing a video on a webpage, this concept can be taken much further. Look at the example below from YouTube.com:

As you can see, YouTube's media player is much more stylized than the one that comes default in HTML5. This is because YouTube uses a scripted media player, which allows for custom controls. However, it has many of the same common elements as the default media player. The point of this is that, while it can be very simple to add video to a webpage, it can also be taken to a much more complicated level if desired.