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This is not true. The majority of any online video sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) use h.264-encoded MP4 delivered to a Flash player on the client-side. So the vide
by riobard 16y ago
This is not true. The majority of any online video sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) use h.264-encoded MP4 delivered to a Flash player on the client-side. So the video is ready to be put in <video> tag, at least in browsers supporting h.264 (sorry Firefox).
If you use the YouTube5 plugin for Safari to browser YouTube you will know this.
The problem is they currently have no way to insert ads and other stuff (like subtitles) into video if it is not played in Flash.
- jey 16y agoI thought one advantage of <video> is that regular HTML can be used to display content like ads?
- riobard 16y agoTwo issues: * Then it's easier to block by AdBlock * Advanced sync'ing between ads and video (required for many ads and features like subtitles) is not possible in HTML5
- jey 16y agoWhy not? There's timing events and etc that should operate at a high enough resolution for any such syncing.
- riobard 16y agoInteresting. I must have missed the timeupdate events. Seems someone has already implemented a nice player with sync'ing subtitles and slides: http://johndyer.name/post/HTML5-Video-Player-with-Slides-and-Transcript.aspx http://johndyer.name/post/HTML5-Video-Player-with-Slides-and... This is cool! Thanks for the update!