When a media player plays a video, it does all but one of the following. Which one is it? Decodes the video and displays it on the screen Decodes the audio and sends it to the speakers Interprets any metadata Converts the video to the required codees When adding audio or video to a web site, a primary problem is that each of the modern browsers has a different media player there isn't a single combination of codees that will work in all modern browsers the HTML5 audio and video elements aren't supported by all modern browsers users often turn off the media players in their browsers so they'll load faster To provide video that can be played by all modern browsers, you need to encode your media into the many formats that meet the requirements of all modern browsers into the one format that all modern browsers can play into the Flash format because all modern browsers support Flash into the three formats that meet the requirements of all modern browsers Example 11-1: The code for playing a video -- > This code works because browsers ignore elements that they don't understard browsers skip to the first nested element that applies to them older browsers look for object elements