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Now that Apple has implemented MSE does this mean that I'll have a significantly higher chance of HTML5 Youtube videos actually playing on Safari? At the momen
by Tiktaalik 12y ago
Now that Apple has implemented MSE does this mean that I'll have a significantly higher chance of HTML5 Youtube videos actually playing on Safari?
At the moment I get the "install flash" message on Youtube videos a disappointingly often amount of the time. Weirdly I've had the experience where embedded HTML5 Youtube videos will play, but they won't when I click through to watch the full-size video on Youtube.
- stevoyoung 12y agoI use the "click to flash" plugin on Safari to block flash. On YouTube, the html 5 video version loads 100% of the time for me. I also have no problem with playing them full screen. Am I missing something or do I just not watch enough YouTube to come across the problem you are describing?
- maxmcd 12y agoThis has nothing to do with browser technology though correct? This is just individual sites not being more proactive about providing desktop fallbacks. If you want a short term solution, I usually just swap to an iPad user agent string if I want to force html5 video.
- rsynnott 12y agoCurrently, Google just doesn't provide a HTML5 option for a lot of their video. They may be more willing to do so with MSE available, of course.
- ashearer 12y agoYouTube appears to require Flash when playing a video with ads from the YouTube site. Embeds of the same video show the HTML5 version ad-free. Here's a tip I've found useful: if you run into the "Install Flash" message, you can usually edit the URL to play in HTML5 instead. Change "watch?v=" to "embed/" (and if there are other querystring arguments starting with an ampersand, just strip them off). There are a few YouTube gateway sites that do something similar, but I remember the 'embed' trick better.