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Is there an existing standards-compliant way to stream video cross-platform? Does it support DRM? There's certainly a technical factor here, even if the media

Is there an existing standards-compliant way to stream video cross-platform? Does it support DRM? There's certainly a technical factor here, even if the media ecosystem is also to blame.

dchest 15y ago
There is a standards-compliant way to deliver video. It's not streaming, but their use doesn't require streaming. There's, thankfully, no web standard for DRM. For an example of standards-compliant way to deliver video, turn on HTML5 support on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5) and watch this awesome movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jVlt-d8W8&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jVlt-d8W8&feature=watch... See, no technical issues.
- tadfisher 15y ago
  Just to be pedantic, I experience technical issues with HTML5 playback in Chromium 17 on Linux. The video seems to be playing at 1.5x speed, and sound is extremely choppy. Flash works fine.
  - DrJokepu 15y ago
    The support for the audio and video elements in browsers is still rather basic and unreliable. Shockingly enough, in my experience at least, IE9 has the best support for HTML5 audio / video, with Safari on OS X (not Windows) being second best.