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Excellent. It's always been weird having a mobile device run YouTube more responsively than an GBP1500 laptop because the latter had to run the Flash plugin.
Now only if Amazon/Netflix would drop Silverlight all would be right with the world.
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What's crappy about iTunes?
It's extremely bloated.
This is really interesting news and I think signals what will be a really large change in digital video in the next few years. Moving from flash to HTML5 adaptive bitrate is not trivial task and if you are familiar with MSE/EME, it shows how powerful the browser has become in delivering rich video content, either pre-recorded or live streaming. With this, it seems to me there is a big gap now for encoding to new adap…
Do you know by the way, is MPEG-DASH patent encumbered or not?
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What's the community using instead of iTunes?
What's crappy about iTunes?
HTML 5 videos on youtube take forever to start for me and would just stay at a buffering screen when I use the seekbar. This is in Chrome. I haven't tried another browser but it has made my youtube experience terrible compared to what is use to be with Flash.
The only regular issue I have with html5 player is buffering with seeking, some times things get stuck. I often resort to youtube-dl `xsel` | dmenu | mpv to help both cpu usage and streaming quality.
I think the problems started when they changed to the "adaptive" rate stuff; the players don't don't download the entire video file anymore, and instead they buffer in segments. Not only does this remove the ability to pre-buffer the entire video, the client seems to get out of sync with the server. The client ends up waiting forever, but the server isn't sending anything.
Fortunately, I was able to switch many of my friends over to youtbe-dl, and that fixed everything. Unfortunately, the article mentions the idiotic "encrypted medfia extensions" a one of the reasons for the changes to youtube; I wonder what additional useless hoops youtube-dl will end up having to have to jump through.
What I especially like about the HTML5 player is the ability to change the playback speed. It is extremely useful for watching lectures & talks.
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I use this constantly when I'm watching tutorials and how-tos. It makes picking up the info you need so much faster. I also recently discovered that the Crocodile Hunter at 1/2 speed is freaking hilarious . e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLIMgXv89VU&feature=youtu.be...
The Crocodile Hunter at 1/2 speed is amazing. I would love it if there was a listing of all videos that are hilarious at 1/2 speed.
What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer. For those that don't know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company's stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it's now worth $6. The only explanation for RealPlayer's popularity was its D…
Unfortunately (though it's considerably more compartmentalized and constrained than prior iterations), Google is trying to replace Flash with a DRM mechanism that also requires proprietary software. So while you might think that the advent of HTML5 video means you no longer need proprietary software to interoperate with the services that use it, Google and its partners are working to ensure that that's not true.
By the way, is MPEG-DASH* patent encumbered or not? I didn't find clear answer on that. Youtube is using DASH (on the server side) to implement adaptive streaming. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_ove...
By the way, is MPEG-DASH* patent encumbered or not? I didn't find clear answer on that. Youtube is using DASH (on the server side) to implement adaptive streaming. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_ove...
And does Firefox support the MediaSourceElement fully (used for DASH)? I was under the impression it did not (but was coming soon).
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