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Isn't this going to be necessary for a site like YouTube to be able to fully switch off of Flash?
by chrischen 14y ago
Isn't this going to be necessary for a site like YouTube to be able to fully switch off of Flash?
- schoen 14y agoCurrently YouTube doesn't require Flash Player for the overwhelming majority of its videos. It's a bit unclear whether they are still using RTMPE for some Hollywood stuff (as they were a year or two ago), but if you go to https://www.youtube.com/movies https://www.youtube.com/movies the free movies work perfectly using all free and open source client software, with no Flash Player. Most (or all) of YouTube is implemented as FLV or MP4 files delivered over HTTP. You can watch this in action by using software like youtube-dl. So apart from the purported, perennial Hollywood threat to boycott things, the empirical answer with regard to the existing YouTube seems to be no. (Though maybe there is still some RTMPE lurking somewhere on the site.)
- pessimizer 14y agoAll YouTube videos (as far as I know) are easy to download and in friendly formats.