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See: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5 Unfortunately the amount of videos encoded only with h.264 is still important and you can't avoi

by reidrac 13y ago

See: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5 Unfortunately the amount of videos encoded only with h.264 is still important and you can't avoid Flash if your browser/OS doesn't provide h.264. So yes, having open video formats and codecs available is great, but please Google... we need you to use them.

ZeroGravitas 13y ago
Are you talking about YouTube? They have everything in vp8. It's something to do with their ad delivery system that forces you back to Flash (and therefore H.264) for some videos.
- reidrac 13y ago
  Read the notes: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5 Not all videos are in webm format, you can add &webm=1 to any search URL. ie. Hacker News search: about 3,780,000 results, about 1,320,000 results with webm flag. In fact sometimes I get an an error like this: http://i.imgur.com/dBPICoM.png http://i.imgur.com/dBPICoM.png (using Chromium 25.0.1364.172 with no h.264 support) I don't know if this is because of ads or what. EDIT: typo
  - ZeroGravitas 13y ago
    They claimed to be encoding all new videos uploaded, and to have already processes up to 30% of their entire back-catalogue, and 99% of viewed videos about two years ago. So I'm guessing they're pretty much done by now. http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-youtube-videos-now-served.html#uds-search-results http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-yo... If I do a similar search to yours, the ones that disappear from the &webm=1 search are all presented to me with Flash, not with HTML5/H.264 but I believe if you embed them in another site you should get the HTML5/Webm version (not actually tested this, just read it as a workaround). You could also try searching for them on a Wii, since it's Youtube app uses Webm.
mikevm 13y ago
If only YouTube's HTML5 video player wasn't so buggy! I have tried switching to the HTML5 player a couple of times, but a few days later I'm back to flash.

by reidrac 13y ago

ZeroGravitas 13y ago

Are you talking about YouTube? They have everything in vp8. It's something to do with their ad delivery system that forces you back to Flash (and therefore H.264) for some videos.

reidrac 13y ago
Read the notes: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5 Not all videos are in webm format, you can add &webm=1 to any search URL. ie. Hacker News search: about 3,780,000 results, about 1,320,000 results with webm flag. In fact sometimes I get an an error like this: http://i.imgur.com/dBPICoM.png http://i.imgur.com/dBPICoM.png (using Chromium 25.0.1364.172 with no h.264 support) I don't know if this is because of ads or what. EDIT: typo
- ZeroGravitas 13y ago
  They claimed to be encoding all new videos uploaded, and to have already processes up to 30% of their entire back-catalogue, and 99% of viewed videos about two years ago. So I'm guessing they're pretty much done by now. http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-youtube-videos-now-served.html#uds-search-results http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-yo... If I do a similar search to yours, the ones that disappear from the &webm=1 search are all presented to me with Flash, not with HTML5/H.264 but I believe if you embed them in another site you should get the HTML5/Webm version (not actually tested this, just read it as a workaround). You could also try searching for them on a Wii, since it's Youtube app uses Webm.

mikevm 13y ago

If only YouTube's HTML5 video player wasn't so buggy! I have tried switching to the HTML5 player a couple of times, but a few days later I'm back to flash.