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> But it seems that more than half the videos I watch are still using the crappy old Flash player. That's because of the ads. With things like ClickToFlash or
by lloeki 13y ago
> But it seems that more than half the videos I watch are still using the crappy old Flash player.
That's because of the ads. With things like ClickToFlash or youtube-dl, you notice that most videos are actually available as MPEG4 and/or WebM.
- Daiz 13y agoThe Flash player is playing the exact same H.264 video that you could get with the HTML5 player.
- codereflection 13y agoThen why do they bring up the Flash player when I've opted in to the HTML5 preview?
- Daiz 13y agoFor ads (and DRM).
- MatthewPhillips 13y agoThe HTML5 player can play ads too...
- tiglionabbit 13y agoProbably because they haven't implemented all of the same features in HTML5 as they have in the Flash version, such as ad overlays and annotations. It's up to the person posting the videos whether or not to use these features, and if they do, it forces the player to use Flash.