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As people have pointed out, even if you have opted-in for html5 videos in settings page and have perfectly html5 capable browser, Youtube refures to play some c
by Yaggo 14y ago
As people have pointed out, even if you have opted-in for html5 videos in settings page and have perfectly html5 capable browser, Youtube refures to play some content in html5 player unless you switch your UA e.g. to iPad (so the html5 version clearly exists).
(Edit: this happens at least with Safari on OS X (not having WebM support), not sure about Chrome, which of course plays WebM as well.)
This is seriously lame act from Youtube. Anybody from Youtube/Google can explain?
- lloeki 14y agoOn desktop it does not fall forward to html5 when there are ads. Or rather, it falls back to Flash to display ads. Sometimes it seems it thinks ads might be displayed and refuses to use html5.
- Yaggo 14y agoThe problem is that it if you (like me) have no Flash installed, it is impossible to play certain videos, unless you switch UA string (i.e. the limitation is artificial).