Hi George! Thanks for re-starting this topic! Funny, I recently sent this to some on staff here at Columbia re: HTML5 players... That these players are quickly becoming what is being coined as "Player as a Service" offerings - video services built around single player instance that can auto-magically load Flash/HTML5 supported media, as well as mobile support. It's an intriguing service model - we offer a similar model now for course media using Flowplayer, Video for Everybody code <http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody>, and some custom auth patches.
http://blog.jilion.com/2010/08/31/introducing-sublimevideo-player-as-a-service http://sublimevideo.net/ http://m.vid.ly/user/ /Brian On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:40 PM, George Bray wrote: > Fans of new developments in online video might be interested to look > at Media Core: http://mediacore.com/ > > It's a social portal centered around video, with the main feature that > their player decides video format you should get depending on the > device used. > > This got me thinking about where the world is at on universal players > and the video format wars. Brian's updated roundup is helpful: > <http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/OC/HTML5+Web+Resources> > > But it seems there's not been much progress toward easy universality. > Neither H.264 nor WebM/VP8 can be used in all situations, so each > piece of content needs to be in at least 2 formats. The player needs > to decide the best way to deliver, based on platform, browser and > manufacturer's video religion. > > The "try HTML5 but fall back to Flash" approach seems to be used by > Longtail (formerly JW Player) too. > <http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/> > > Any other developments in this area recently? > > George > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ >
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