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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by coldpie »

waqf wrote: post #240
jcampbell1 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is worth pointing out that Chrome and IE are miles ahead of Firefox and Safari at time stretching audio. Firefox and Safari sound like an underwater mess. Chrome and IE use a sophisticated and very nice pitch correction algo (I think it is called WSOLA)

Wow, I had always assumed that the time-stretching was done server-side. I'm such a dinosaur.

Yeah, the whole advantage to HTML5 video is that it's just a video in a standard format. Your client (browser, whatever) can do whatever it likes with the video. Usually the UIs just present pausing, rewinding, maybe time-stretching. But in theory it's just a video and you can do any kind of analysis and editing on it you want.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by coldpie »

shenoyroopesh wrote: post #326
marvin wrote: post #314

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This actually makes sense; the porn industry has much higher earnings per user and hence a much greater loss due to lower conversion for those who don't have Flash installed. So for them, it's a "my hair is on fire" kind of thing. Whereas for Youtube et al., it's a nice-to-have.

But won't it be same if you look at percentages? Unless you hypothise that porn users not having flash installed is somehow a larger percentage compared to average web user not having flash installed?!

Don't forget Flash doesn't work on mobile ;)

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by patzerhacker »

yohui wrote: post #250
schoen wrote: post #242

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I agree that HTML5 is much better than Flash in every way, so in this sense I'd just like to encourage our community to continue applying pressure at all levels and in all channels to ensure that Encrypted Media Extensions doesn't continue to be a part of HTML5 standards, UAs, or websites.

> I'd just like to encourage our community to continue applying pressure at all levels and in all channels to ensure that Encrypted Media Extensions doesn't continue to be a part of HTML5 standards Which just means content owners will continue to use proprietary plugins or push un standardized extensions. Pressure should be applied to the root of the issue (copyright holders' desire for DRM), not the symptom.

Pressure should be applied in both places.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by coldpie »

briandear wrote: post #94
erickhill wrote: post #9

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Now only if Amazon/Netflix would drop Silverlight all would be right with the world.

And my brokerage account.. Their ActiveTrader platform on Silverlight is a piece of crap. It crashes exactly when you are trying to pull the trigger on a trade. I despise Silverlight with every ounce of my being.

Honestly, consider switching banks. Not sure the situation in France, but in the US there's loads of brokerages. It's a very competitive space, and there's no reason to put up with a horrid UI (one of the most important parts of a brokerage!) if you don't have to.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by Nexxxeh »

spain wrote: post #354

Seems like it isn't perfect yet. At least on Firefox I don't get to watch videos in 1080p anymore on Youtube with the HTML5 player.

I watched a 1080p video using HTML5 on Opera yesterday.

As a test, I just popped open the first interesting looking video on my signed-in YouTube front page (my account has been set to HTML5 for a while).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA

I'm not a fan of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs but the video does have Lily Cole is in 1080p. Opera 27.0.1689.54 on Win 8.1 x64.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by revscat »

_ea1k wrote: post #77
MichaelApproved wrote: post #55

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That's some impressive revisionist history. The whole reason Steve published that list was because of the backlash Apple received for not supporting Flash.

And yet in his own words, the "most important reason" was to prevent other companies from using cross-platform libraries (such as Adobe Air) on the platform. That reason was reversed, and Adobe Air (including what was essentially compiled Flash) became available on iOS. (see daring fireball for more information: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas... )

It was never reversed, and you're missing the point. Flash as a runtime environment -- with its own stack, VM, APIs, and process ID -- was never allowed on iOS, and only barely was available on other mobile devices. What you linked to was Air, which allowed you to write applications in ActionScript and then generate Objective-C.

This is worlds away from a reversal. You were still using Cocoa to interact with the device, not Flash.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by dublinben »

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.

You should use this add-on, called YouTube All HTML5. It just works.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-all-h...

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by rasz_pl »

deeviant wrote: post #84
nailer wrote: post #2

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.

I've had a pretty poor experience with HTML 5 video. It stutters far more than flash and in particular it does very weird things when I try to skip around in videos. I'll miss flash.

Same, Flash serves h264 to my old core2 laptop, html5 forces shitty VP8. Result is smooth 720p of mpeg4 versus playable 640x480 on googles codec.

Of course computer itself plays 1080p h264 perfectly fine in mplayer, so I might end up writing javascript that fires mplayer with mp4 link (to stream rather than downloading whole clip) instead of displaying video in the browser :(

There used to be mplayer plugin for firefox a loong time ago, nowadays all browsers use building unoptimized codecs.

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