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Not sure why this is being down voted, but it seems pretty fair to me. DRM is the reason why YouTube still uses Flash as the main player, the same for Netflix w
by lucaspiller 12y ago
Not sure why this is being down voted, but it seems pretty fair to me. DRM is the reason why YouTube still uses Flash as the main player, the same for Netflix with Silverlight.
Given Twitter will mainly be doing this from a commercial angle, I can't see them being any different - if anything their technical might will lead to stronger DRM technologies.
- rtpg 12y agoDRM is not the reason youtube uses flash, browser support and feature usage. HTML5 video APIs are still frustrating to use compared to flash's pretty well built-out mechanisms.
- eleusive 12y agoAdvertisers also love to serve video ads on a flash platform because it lets them perform custom analytics, logic, etc.
- psykovsky 12y agoAnd don't forget the part where flash is a backdoor to users computers. It can bypass proxies and give them your real IP, and I'm not sure even google will want that to go away.
- detaro 12y agoWhat kind of DRM? I haven't come across a YouTube video where it fell back to Flash in ages.
- 7952 12y agoNo They don't need flash to do DRM. Chrome has the widevine plugin that adds DRM to html5.
- warfangle 12y ago> YouTube still uses Flash as the main player That's odd; I just loaded up a YouTube video and it's the HTML5 player. Maybe I have it enabled in settings somewhere; huh, nope, in incognito mode it's still HTML5. Must be a chrome thing - in Firefox it's flash. Probably something to do with the codecs available in Firefox HTML5.