On 2010-01-22, at 06:25, Raju Bitter wrote: > Did you see the announcement of HTML5 video for Youtube and Vimeo? > http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html >> A while ago, YouTube launched a simple demo of an HTML5-based video player. >> Recently, we published a blog post on >> our pre-spring cleaning effort and your number one request was that YouTube >> do more with HTML5. Today, we're >> introducing an experimental version of an HTML5-supported player. > > > http://vimeo.com/blog:268 >> What's the HTML5 player, you ask? Simply put, it's an alternative to our >> current Flash player that looks and works >> almost exactly the same way. What are the benefits? >> The player loads right away -- no more spinning butterfly thingy >> You can jump anywhere in the video, without having to wait for it to buffer >> Smoother, less jumpy playback (we hope) >> .... >> It only works for about 25% of you: you must be running the latest versions >> of Safari, Chrome, or IE with Chrome Frame installed. > > Hmmm, probably time to tackle an OpenLaszlo version: > http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8290
Indeed. It's funny. Apple gave u-toob a great incentive to re-encode their videos as H.264. If you use the click-to-flash plug-in, somehow it tells u-toob to deliver the H.264 if it is available. I guess it pretends to be an iphone? But then it just uses quicktime as the player. I'm not sure I understand what it means to have an "html 5" player. There are html buttons that control the playback? Is there more?
