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Presumably this is to avoid the need for Flash for video streaming. I believe the two main advantages of Flash over the Video tag are that Flash can encrypt, a
by AndrewDucker 15y ago
Presumably this is to avoid the need for Flash for video streaming.
I believe the two main advantages of Flash over the Video tag are that Flash can encrypt, and flash can do adaptive rate streaming - and adaptive rate streaming is also going through the standards process at the moment.
- ldite 15y agoAn MPEG standard for adaptive streaming (DASH) has just been ratified: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=79382 http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Arti... http://dashpg.com/?page_id=25 http://dashpg.com/?page_id=25 Firefox and Chrome both seem to be working on implementing it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702122 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702122 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109652 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109652