Adding video and audio objects in WebHelp Classic

You can insert references to video and audio media resources (such as videos, audio clips, or embedded HTML frames) in your DITA topics and then publish them to WebHelp output. The media objects can be played directly in all HTML5-based outputs, including WebHelp systems.

To add media objects in the WebHelp output generated from DITA documents, doing the following:

  1. Manually add an object element, as in one of the following examples:
    <object outputclass="video" type="video/mp4" data="MyVideo.mp4"/>

    or, instead of the data attribute, you can specify the video using a parameter like this:

    <object outputclass="video">
      <param name="src" value="videos/MyVideo.mp4"/>
    </object>
  2. Edit the DITA topic and insert a reference to the video by adding an object element, as in one of the following examples:
    <object outputclass="video" type="video/mp4" data="MyVideo.mp4"/>

    or, instead of the data attribute, you can specify the video using a parameter like this:

    <object outputclass="video">
      <param name="src" value="videos/MyVideo.mp4"/>
    </object>
  3. Apply a DITA to WebHelp transformation to obtain the output.
    The transformation converts the object element to an HTML5 video element.
    <video controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="MyVideo.mp4"></source>
    

    </video>