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YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by carlob »

tatterdemalion wrote: post #11

Hooray! I delete all cookies on session end and I don't have flash installed. Having to remember to go to youtube.com/html5 every time I start a new session has been frustrating. Also, the HTML5 player has a nice feature to change the rate at which the video plays, which makes watching long talks a lot easier.

There are a bunch of extensions that could have forced all video to html5 for you.

ClickToPlugin is great IMO and it's kept me from switching away from safari for the longest time.

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Post by niutech »

dwiel wrote: post #178
eliben wrote: post #46

What I especially like about the HTML5 player is the ability to change the playback speed. It is extremely useful for watching lectures & talks.

Does any one know if there is a super easy way to also eliminate silent portions of the video? For example copying notes, changing blackboards, pauses in speech, erasing blackboards, etc? I feel like this could achieve similar results as 1.5x without as much strain, or could make 1.5 even faster. Bonus points for removing like, umm, uhh, etc

Not super easy, but should be doable using Web Audio API and its AnalyzerNode.

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Post by r0s »

mhb wrote: post #124
koyote wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Private media collection.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by ramamark »

This leaves the BBC as one of the few major sites still dependent on flash for desktop users. Ironic considering you'd expect it to be at the forefront of video delivery technology. I use IE's Developer Tools to request the site as an iPad, a much better experience.

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Post by anigbrowl »

jsprogrammer wrote: post #289
anigbrowl wrote: post #257

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It would have to get a lot nicer. I work in film and shooting an image of a TV or computer monitor is often a pain, even with high-end cameras, due to interference between the frame rates of the camera and display devices, as well as light intensity. For high quality results the typical workaround is to just throw up a grid pattern on the screen in question and composite in the desired image afterwards. Is it possibl…

Unless the playback hardware is DRM'd and encased in an impenetrable box, you don't need to capture photons and compression waves, just the output at the DAC, which can give you perfect fidelity to the original digital signal.

Yes, but who does that in real life outside the tiny community of extreme hardware nerds? Absolutely such things are possible, but they're increasingly impractical. It's the same reason that people promote widespread adoption of encryption; there's no encryption so strong that it couldn't be easily circumvented at the endpoints by really dedicated sppoks, but the sheer inconvenience is itself a safeguard against mass surveillance.

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Post by lmm »

jrockway wrote: post #286
dwiel wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does any one know if there is a super easy way to also eliminate silent portions of the video? For example copying notes, changing blackboards, pauses in speech, erasing blackboards, etc? I feel like this could achieve similar results as 1.5x without as much strain, or could make 1.5 even faster. Bonus points for removing like, umm, uhh, etc

At some point, the author of the video has to take some responsibility for editing. This is like asking "Is there a super easy way to eliminate spelling errors on arbitrary web pages? Sometimes the author has no idea how to spell." Actually, come to think of it, both are good ideas.

Did the Youtube Comment Snob people ever do anything more with that idea?

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Post by lmm »

NeutronBoy wrote: post #123
matthewmacleod wrote: post #83

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Out of interest, why is Firefox a 'proper' open-source browser while Chrome is not? Isn't Chrome pretty much just Chromium with a little bit of extra Google integration on top?

Chrome is open source in the same way Android is open source - built on open source components, with some proprietary sprinkles on top, but good luck having any say in the development of Chrome or Android, it's pretty much Google's way or the highway. With Mozilla, all discussions are open, choices are justified, and literally anyone (assuming your reasoning and technical abilities are sound) can contribute. (I'll no…

Mozilla is still feeling the effects of poor choices made by Netscape. If you want a real open source browser, try Konqueror - with (IIRC) <1/3 as many developers as Mozilla they wrote a complete open source browser from the ground up, with a rendering engine so good that Apple and Google adopted it to build their browsers on top of.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by aantthony »

emehrkay wrote: post #42
jfb wrote: post #23

Well, now I can delete Chrome.

My first thought as well, but aren't there older youtube videos that haven't been converted to html5-friendly formats?

I've been using Safari without flash for a while now, and it used to be like that, but lately it's been extremely rare to find any which aren't html5 compatible.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by mojuba »

mukundmr wrote: post #287

Uninstalled Flash Player with an evil laugh on my home iMac only to reinstall it when my kid's games needed it. What is the alternative to flash for games that run on PBS Kids, etc. ?

Google Chrome comes packaged with a Flash player (at least on OS X), so here is what I do, very simple: no Flash, use Safari most of the time, use Chrome as a fall back.
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