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The future of everyone being able to view online video (e.g. Netflix/Hulu/BBC) without a plugin is not getting anywhere closer.
by mythz 13y ago
The future of everyone being able to view online video (e.g. Netflix/Hulu/BBC) without a plugin is not getting anywhere closer.
- mikeash 13y agoSure looks like it's getting closer to me. The amount of content I can view without a plugin has absolutely exploded over the past few years. Sure, big Hollywood names aren't in there yet, but it's not like they're the only ones who make videos worth watching.
- mythz 13y agoWhat you mean by "big Hollywood" the mainstream population refers to as "TV" and "Movies". None of which we're able to watch without a plugin. I do all my TV watching online (95% on Netflix/Hulu), even most of the videos I watch on YouTube require flash, despite being opt-in to using the HTML5 video player.
- mikeash 13y agoYour statement was "closer". Even if the video watchable without plugins is only 1% of the total, your statement is still wrong if it was e.g. 0.1% a few years ago. Regarding YouTube, I do most of my YouTubing on iOS devices, and it's very rare to find a video that doesn't work, so the non-plugin support is good. Why it doesn't work in your browser, I couldn't say, but at this point I suspect it's more about your setup than YouTube not supporting it at all.
- jlgreco 13y agoThis could not possibly be further from the truth.
- throwaway2048 13y agoEME is just as much of a platform specific closed source plugin as flash or silverlight.
- quaint- 13y agoYou do realize that the proposed HTML5 DRM specification has nothing to do with being able to view DRM-protected videos without plugins, as it's mostly centered around specifying a platform for plugins, do you?
- yarrel 13y agoThe W3C DRM plug-in standard requires proprietary plugins to work. So you're right.