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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by kkuduk »

commandar wrote: post #50
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.

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...

and when you need something between 1.25 and 1.5 available from UI, you can always do:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.35

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by _frog »

[deleted] wrote: post #89

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Are you talking about the thing where going fullscreen places the video in a new virtual desktop? Because if that's the case I vastly prefer that behaviour. It makes it much easier to jump back and forth between watching a fullscreen video and reading content in other browser tabs.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by hexscrews »

commandar wrote: post #50
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.

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...

It may simply be me, but in Firefox, I don't have the option to change speeds. *update: It looks like they haven't rolled out the change everywhere. I had to change it to HTML5. It still defaults to flash apparently.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by briandear »

erickhill wrote: post #9
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.

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.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

#95

Post by chambo622 »

pornel wrote: post #82
Alphasite_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix has HTML5 support for Safari and iirc IE.

The "HTML5" support requires proprietary binary blob that has no standard API (besides an API to launch it with opaque data from a proprietary server) and is licensed only to selected companies. Basically it's as much HTML5 as was HTML4. It's supported only by DRM vendors: Google (WideVine), Safari (FairPlay) and Microsoft (PlayReady) and doesn't work in open-source browsers (not even in Chromium or custom WebKit bui…

Netflix works fine in Chrome on Linux. What do you mean by "licensed only to selected companies?"

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by chambo622 »

pornel wrote: post #82
Alphasite_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix has HTML5 support for Safari and iirc IE.

The "HTML5" support requires proprietary binary blob that has no standard API (besides an API to launch it with opaque data from a proprietary server) and is licensed only to selected companies. Basically it's as much HTML5 as was HTML4. It's supported only by DRM vendors: Google (WideVine), Safari (FairPlay) and Microsoft (PlayReady) and doesn't work in open-source browsers (not even in Chromium or custom WebKit bui…

Netflix works fine in Chrome on Linux. What do you mean by "licensed only to selected companies?"

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by micampe »

tosseraccount wrote: post #31
micampe wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment originally read: ”From the guy that tried to force QuickTime on us?” , and that was the comment I was responding to. Also, the events described in your link all took place while Jobs was not at Apple.

Fair enough. Looks like some Apple fanatics are out today. If you criticize apple ; you have to be careful otherwise you get whited out pretty quick. So I toned it down. My point was the Steve Jobs complaining about proprietary video is very ironic ... when he was pedaling his own proprietary video tech.

Oh please, stop it with the fanatics. The first version of your comment is not only incorrect but also not the type and tone of contribution appreciated on HN, and you have been here long enough to know it.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by flavioribeiro »

SCdF wrote: post #88

Next up (I hope): Twitch. Then I think I'm done with that extension.

I think that the first step on moving to HTML5-only player is the support for DASH on the live streaming stack. AFAIK, Twitch is using HLS to broadcast their channels which isn't supported on browsers by default[1]. I bet Twitch guys are working on this right now.

[1] There's an initiative to play HLS videos without flash at https://github.com/RReverser/mpegts, but its too much heavy since the browser needs to change mpegts container to mp4.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

#100

Post by smacktoward »

hrasyid wrote: post #86
shutupalready wrote: post #65

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…

Wow http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RNWK+Interactive#symbol=R...

Yes, Virginia, as hard as it may be to believe today, once upon a time RealNetworks was a very big deal.

For a real spit-take, though, put one of the companies that we think of today as Very Big Deals next to it for comparison. Like, say, comparing Apple's performance to RealNetworks' over the decade from 1997 to 2007:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=0&...

(I omit the last few years because AAPL has gone up so much over that period that if you include it you can't see the line for RealNetworks anymore. But check out how long it took Apple just to reach the heights Real was at in the late '90s.)

Or Adobe, all the way up to now:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=0&...

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