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I don't understand why it's so hard, you can just use the HTML5 <video> tag and then bam, you've got a polished and bug-free video player.
by symlinkk 9y ago
I don't understand why it's so hard, you can just use the HTML5 <video> tag and then bam, you've got a polished and bug-free video player.
- mulmen 9y agoYou're kidding right? What about the CDN? Does anyone actually use a plain html5 <video> tag for playback? Is that what Facebook and news sites like NYT and CNN are using? Is that what Reddit will use? Outside Youtube I can't think of a single video player I would even call usable, forget polished.
- wolfgang42 9y agoIt's nowhere near that simple. I wrote a video player which only had to support three clients (Win7+IE, Win7+Chrome, and iPad Safari) and it still took me weeks to get it working right. Here's a whole post I wrote about the transcoding settings alone: http://www.linestarve.com/blog/post/rendering-html5-video-with-handbrake/ http://www.linestarve.com/blog/post/rendering-html5-video-wi...