On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:35 PM, P T Withington wrote: > 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?
In light of Google's acquisition of On2 technology - there was just a press announcement by Google an On2 on Jan 7th (http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100107005821&newsLang=en) this can be seen as a the next step on the way to an open web video platform. http://technologizer.com/2009/08/05/google-acquisition-could-move-html-5-ahead/ > “Today video is an essential part of the Web experience, and we believe > high-quality video compression technology should be a part of the Web > platform,” said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at > Google, in a prepared statement. “We are committed to innovation in video > quality on the Web, and we believe that On2’s team and technology will help > us further that goal.” At the same time, just today, Firefox announced fullscreen support for open standards based HTML 5 video: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/10/firefox-3-6-gets-full-screen-native-video/ > Firefox 3.6 now supports fullscreen video playback through native HTML5 video > embeds. Just right-click a video embedded using the HTML5 video tag and > you’ll see a new menu item for full-screen playback. And they have support for poster view: <video src="videofile.ogg" autoplay poster="posterimage.jpg"> Your browser does not support the <code>video</code> element. </video> So much happening... but still not one open standard!
