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Originally Posted by mgardner
I see that support for audio and video were added to Sigil in version 0.6.1. I'm trying to figure out how to add videos to my ebook, and I couldn't find any kind of documentation on this forum or elsewhere that told me what the tags are supposed to look like, and there was no functionality that I could find for adding video tags in the application itself. I tried putting in tags formatted according to html5, and Sigil complained that it wasn't valid xhtml. Can anyone point me to some description of the proper way of including video in my ebook with Sigil?
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Short answer is, you can't.
Create the epub, using placeholder tags. Then you'll have to edit the ePUB by hand, using an HTML editor (or you can use ePUBtweak). If the former, explode the ePUB; if the latter, it will explode it for you. Open the file(s) in which you've placed the placeholder tags. Replace the placeholder tags with the "<video>" tags, or what-have-you, and then SAVE. You'll have to put the actual video in the eponymously-named folders.
With regard to what the tags should be or say, I'll recommend that first, you pay a visit to w3schools.com and brush up on those tags, and then you'll need to read the documentation for whichever retailer you're aiming at, to be ungrammatical.
Each retailer (device) is different. If you're working for iBooks, the most likely culprit, read the iBooks Publisher's Asset Guide, and they'll detail the exact tag usage, and what types of audio/ video you have to use.
OK? Hope that helps.
Hitch