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Youtube HTML5 is experimental and not production quality. Many (most?) videos pop up a "Flash player is required" error when you try to access them even after t

by potkor 14y ago

Youtube HTML5 is experimental and not production quality. Many (most?) videos pop up a "Flash player is required" error when you try to access them even after turning on html5 on. Probably something to do with ads, random joe videos have a high success rate and videos from the youtube front page low.

nicholassmith 14y ago
Predominately the ones that won't play in HTML5 are the ones with advertising support on, seems YouTube hasn't gotten the ad overlays working properly (or something) and they've not gone full HTML5 yet.
kinofcain 14y ago
They'll happily serve h264 versions of those to mobile devices, however, so if you enable debugging in safari you can switch the user agent to 'iPad' from the 'develop' menu and the page will reload and work just fine. You don't get the high def options though.
- Evbn 14y ago
  Many are "not available on your device".
  - kinofcain 14y ago
    I wouldn't say 'many', a while ago that was more true, but recently all the ones I've tried work fine with this trick, whereas only about half the videos play in 'desktop' safari sans flash.