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The HTML Audio and Video support is probably all not used in Code. However I guess it could be hard to compile chromium (and electron) without these, if they didn't invest the additional effort to put them behind a compile flag.

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Actually, audio/video can be and is used. There is an API for previewing HTML documents, <video> and <audio> tags work perfectly fine.

It is, you can watch videos at the extensions marketplace.

Those are animated GIF's, not "real" videos.

Oops, my bad

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