diff --git a/examples/static/README.md b/examples/static/README.md
index ef463128..78f53382 100644
--- a/examples/static/README.md
+++ b/examples/static/README.md
@@ -42,3 +42,8 @@ $ curl -sLO http://localhost:8080/test.txt
$ cat test.txt
If you read this then the static file server works!
```
+
+HTML5 Video Example
+-------------------
+
+Open http://localhost:8080/video.html in your favorite browser.
diff --git a/examples/static/priv/small.mp4 b/examples/static/priv/small.mp4
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1fc47884
Binary files /dev/null and b/examples/static/priv/small.mp4 differ
diff --git a/examples/static/priv/small.ogv b/examples/static/priv/small.ogv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6409d6e6
Binary files /dev/null and b/examples/static/priv/small.ogv differ
diff --git a/examples/static/priv/video.html b/examples/static/priv/video.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eca63ee4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/static/priv/video.html
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+
+
+ HTML5 Video Example
+
+ Videos taken from TechSlides
+
+
diff --git a/examples/static/start.sh b/examples/static/start.sh
index ab157391..bc678460 100755
--- a/examples/static/start.sh
+++ b/examples/static/start.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
#!/bin/sh
erl -pa ebin deps/*/ebin -s static \
- -eval "io:format(\"Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/test.txt~n\")."
+ -eval "io:format(\"Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/test.txt~n\")." \
+ -eval "io:format(\"Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/video.html~n\")."