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Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.

by mpk 16y ago

ugh 16y ago
They seem to be using the video-tag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/html5.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/html5.png Don’t know what’s going on with QuickTime – maybe a fallback if your browser won’t play h.264? Does it work on Chrome without QuickTime? (– edit: Three people [who downvoted me] seem to think that formulating a reasonable hypothesis and asking reasonable questions because of conflicting information is already too much Apple love. Or maybe they just think I’m lazy for not doing the research myself? Oh, well. Check out my other grandkid comment in this thread to see how testing my hypothesis worked out.)
- tuacker 16y ago
  Didn't work on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime for me.
  - DrJokepu 16y ago
    Did work for me on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime, although I have the beta version of Chrome installed.
- younata 16y ago
  I run midori [1] on a freebsd machine, it works somewhat well (audio problems) with html5 video on youtube. Quicktime is not a fallback, it's still the standard. edit: forgot the link [1] http://www.twotoasts.de/ http://www.twotoasts.de/
  - ugh 16y ago
    I fired up Chrome and here is what I saw: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/chrome.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/chrome.png They seem to do some evil browser sniffing (I have no confirmation but that’s how it looks) and indeed use QuickTime as a fallback if you use any other browser than Safari. Apple, listen: Thou Shalt Detect Features, Not Browsers! :)
    - younata 16y ago
      http://i49.tinypic.com/ws0boj.png http://i49.tinypic.com/ws0boj.png I have midori identifying as safari - it works well enough for google to at least not give me crap for using something different, and I still see the "you need quicktime to view this" stuff.
- bigsassy 16y ago
  On my Ubuntu 10.04 system, I was asked to download codecs for h.264. Once the download and install was done the video played just fine.
- mattyb 16y ago
  On my Ubuntu 10.04 system, the video played fine.
  - ugh 16y ago
    Ok, now I’m really intrigued. My browser sniffing theory doesn’t seem to be the (complete) truth, either.
    - papachito 16y ago
      It does do browser sniffing, it works on his ubuntu because he's using firefox with the mplayer plugin that can read h264.
      - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
        One missing detail: On Ubuntu the native multimedia plugin actually pretends to be Quicktime, so that Linux users aren't locked out of Quicktime delivered material. (For me the video was quite low quality, possibly it doesn't fake the bitrate management stuff correctly and just gives you the lowest quality available)
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- bad_user 16y ago
  Works in Ubuntu Lucid / Chrome (not Chromium) with no Quicktime installed.
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nailer 16y ago
I have Quicktime and I can't see it - OS X 10.6, Chrome.

Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.

by mpk 16y ago

Eh, requires Quicktime. Hooray for the Open Web. I'll just take your word that it's really shiny.

ugh 16y ago

They seem to be using the video-tag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/html5.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/html5.png Don’t know what’s going on with QuickTime – maybe a fallback if your browser won’t play h.264? Does it work on Chrome without QuickTime? (– edit: Three people [who downvoted me] seem to think that formulating a reasonable hypothesis and asking reasonable questions because of conflicting information is already too much Apple love. Or maybe they just think I’m lazy for not doing the research myself? Oh, well. Check out my other grandkid comment in this thread to see how testing my hypothesis worked out.)

tuacker 16y ago
Didn't work on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime for me.
- DrJokepu 16y ago
  Did work for me on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime, although I have the beta version of Chrome installed.
younata 16y ago
I run midori [1] on a freebsd machine, it works somewhat well (audio problems) with html5 video on youtube. Quicktime is not a fallback, it's still the standard. edit: forgot the link [1] http://www.twotoasts.de/ http://www.twotoasts.de/
- ugh 16y ago
  I fired up Chrome and here is what I saw: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/chrome.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/chrome.png They seem to do some evil browser sniffing (I have no confirmation but that’s how it looks) and indeed use QuickTime as a fallback if you use any other browser than Safari. Apple, listen: Thou Shalt Detect Features, Not Browsers! :)
  - younata 16y ago
    http://i49.tinypic.com/ws0boj.png http://i49.tinypic.com/ws0boj.png I have midori identifying as safari - it works well enough for google to at least not give me crap for using something different, and I still see the "you need quicktime to view this" stuff.
bigsassy 16y ago
On my Ubuntu 10.04 system, I was asked to download codecs for h.264. Once the download and install was done the video played just fine.
mattyb 16y ago
On my Ubuntu 10.04 system, the video played fine.
- ugh 16y ago
  Ok, now I’m really intrigued. My browser sniffing theory doesn’t seem to be the (complete) truth, either.
  - papachito 16y ago
    It does do browser sniffing, it works on his ubuntu because he's using firefox with the mplayer plugin that can read h264.
    - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
      One missing detail: On Ubuntu the native multimedia plugin actually pretends to be Quicktime, so that Linux users aren't locked out of Quicktime delivered material. (For me the video was quite low quality, possibly it doesn't fake the bitrate management stuff correctly and just gives you the lowest quality available)
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bad_user 16y ago
Works in Ubuntu Lucid / Chrome (not Chromium) with no Quicktime installed.

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nailer 16y ago

I have Quicktime and I can't see it - OS X 10.6, Chrome.