Now if only Twitter would eliminate the Flash dependency to show animated GIFs on Firefox...
YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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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.
Why would users switch to this as yet non-existent proprietary DRM mechanism when free and open source solutions already exist and are widely used?
Because I want to watch Netflix or whatever else requires it, and that's a value calculation I've made?
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What's the community using instead of iTunes?
What's crappy about iTunes?
Speaking from personal experience on Yosemite: slow UI, constant beachballs and stutters (despite lots of RAM and no platter drives), paint/refresh bugs while scrolling, 100% CPU usage to play tracks (without FX/EQ), years of mission-creep, and a general conceptual mess since version 12, with its multiplicity of modes and sub-modes.
As an iTunes apologist and power-user since 1.0 (my huge library admittedly is not helping), 12 has become the last straw on using iTunes as anything but a sync tool and database. As a media player, it's a disaster.
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Because there will come a day when something they want to watch desperately will require it.
That day will never come[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
I remember the days where they talked about making video cameras that would actually stop recording if they were pointed at a piece of media with special markers in it.
Nowadays people would use some kind of HDCP-breaking digital capture device, and regulating all video cameras is basically impossible with their ubiquity, but it's crazy to think about video cameras being modified against our will to suit the needs of one industry.
Those in power will always try to take control away from us. Don't let them.
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Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer. Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.
What's the community using instead of iTunes?
I use Clementine on Linux, and sometimes on my Mac.
It handles more formats than iTunes (FLAC and OGG, maybe others), and the interface is okay, but not as polished as iTunes.
I haven't used it to add or remove music from my iPhone on either platform, but the Linux version can play music from the phone, so maybe it works.
Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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Because there will come a day when something they want to watch desperately will require it.
That day will never come[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Nope, it will come aliright. You're just taking a black/white dichotomy. But they don't have to make it impossible - just inconvenient.
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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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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.
That seems to be a problem with youtube in general. I see that behavior all the time. Several local friend of mine also have these seeking problems, too, so it may depend on the particular cache servers you end up seeing. 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 r…
No I meant another kind of issue. The "smart" adaptive buffering was a problem, but 90% of the time you could force seek youtube flash player and wait for the stream to accumulate enough for the video to continue.
With HTML5 (under firefox nightly) sometimes it's really stuck and no acceptable amount of seek and/or wait had any effect on it, so I believe it's another kind of bug.
Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why would users switch to this as yet non-existent proprietary DRM mechanism when free and open source solutions already exist and are widely used?
What do you mean by "as yet non-existent"? I believe Chrome, IE and Safari are all shipping it. It sounds like you can even use Netflix with it, as of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8159110