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Does that come along for the ride if you use Chromium rather than Chrome? I'm not next to my Mac, but I believe I remember chromium being available through the

Does that come along for the ride if you use Chromium rather than Chrome? I'm not next to my Mac, but I believe I remember chromium being available through the homebrew cask system. I don't care if I don't have flash (actually I care to NOT have flash). So what reason would there be to not simply run Chromium? Or am I forgetting something useful that I'm likely using?

_asummers 12y ago
Certain YouTube videos use Flash instead of HTML5, particularly at higher resolutions. You can probably live without this, but it's worth noting.
- kuschku 12y ago
  Not anymore—all videos can be viewed in Chromium as well (except those with special DRM). They’re using DASH with small .mp4 snippets. It’s also the reason why videos don’t load completely anymore and why audio and video sometimes go out of sync. Also the reason why nothing works as expected.
  - _asummers 12y ago
    That's good to know, thank you. I knew that they transitioned to DASH but I didn't think that brought HTML5 everywhere. For live stream events (e.g. Apple's announcements), do they still use Flash?
    - neilkathok 12y ago
      Apple's announcements usually use the Quicktime plugin, at least if you're viewing on OSX. You can also usually extract the source stream and play it in another app if you dig through the markup/scripts/etc.
  - cbhl 12y ago
    It's worth noting that HLS is still currently being used for live events on YouTube, which requires the Flash player on Chrome.
  - cloudwalking 12y ago
    This is called Slice Bread. It also helps video buffer much faster. http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Google-s-Sliced-Bread-cuts-buffering-gap-4303100.php http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Googl...
Nullabillity 12y ago
Sync, auto-updating, DRM. PDFium used to be Chrome-only but was recently open-sourced.
- pritambaral 12y ago
  Sync works on Chromium (Linux) too, have been using it ever since I could.

_asummers 12y ago

Certain YouTube videos use Flash instead of HTML5, particularly at higher resolutions. You can probably live without this, but it's worth noting.

kuschku 12y ago
Not anymore—all videos can be viewed in Chromium as well (except those with special DRM). They’re using DASH with small .mp4 snippets. It’s also the reason why videos don’t load completely anymore and why audio and video sometimes go out of sync. Also the reason why nothing works as expected.
- _asummers 12y ago
  That's good to know, thank you. I knew that they transitioned to DASH but I didn't think that brought HTML5 everywhere. For live stream events (e.g. Apple's announcements), do they still use Flash?
  - neilkathok 12y ago
    Apple's announcements usually use the Quicktime plugin, at least if you're viewing on OSX. You can also usually extract the source stream and play it in another app if you dig through the markup/scripts/etc.
- cbhl 12y ago
  It's worth noting that HLS is still currently being used for live events on YouTube, which requires the Flash player on Chrome.
- cloudwalking 12y ago
  This is called Slice Bread. It also helps video buffer much faster. http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Google-s-Sliced-Bread-cuts-buffering-gap-4303100.php http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Googl...

Nullabillity 12y ago

Sync, auto-updating, DRM. PDFium used to be Chrome-only but was recently open-sourced.

pritambaral 12y ago
Sync works on Chromium (Linux) too, have been using it ever since I could.