Are YouTube Vimeo Ready to Replace Flash with HTML5 Video
I’ve been tracking HTML5 video regarding our future project, as HTML5 will most probably replace Flash video. Although Flash has been the primary method for web video for long time, the future of online video is HTML5. I have read a post on Microsoft official blog which shared the same opinion as well. At this point, however, HTML5 is still in its infancy. There are many things you can do with HTML5, but there are still many others you can’t do with HTML5.
One of the many advantages is that removing Flash as the video middleware can increase performance and reduce the hit to processing and download bandwidth as well as battery life. That’s to say the player should load quickly, it is annoying to waiting for a video buffering. With HTML5 video you’ll be able to jump the video playhead anywhere without having to wait for the content to buffer. Even though HTML5 video has a great deal of advantages, you may still find some major challenges that have to be addressed before it may gain widespread ownership. One of the most important challenges is the browser support issue. Old browsers do not support HTML5, even the latest browsers can’t support all the HTML5 tags, as to HTML5 video part, many browsers support only certain HTML5 video types. For example, Microsoft IE web browser offers poor support with regard to emerging standards and doesn’t yet have a good HTML5 video support. Considering this side effect of this issue, we have built a HTML5 Video Player for encoding and embedding web videos which can convert video clips into all the three HTML5 video formats for maximum compatibility.
Another problem that’s impeding ubiquitous adoption of HTML5 video is definitely the ongoing dispute of what video codecs ought to be used on the web. Google and Apple favor h. 264 whilst Opera and Mozilla choose Ogg Theora. Even though Theora doesn’t however rival h. 264 within performance and data compresion quality, its advantage is that it’s thought to end up being unencumbered by software program patents. The most important thing to the web browsers manufactures are if they can use the multimedia codecs royalty-free as well as distributed in open source programs.
Google firstly expressed its public desire for using the HTML5 video element for YouTube in 2009 at the Google I/O seminar. As we explained above, Web content delivery companies, like YouTube and Vimeo, and web browser manufactures a lot to gain from standards-based video. They all want to avoid proprietary video client technologies that are controlled by single vendors. They welcome the standards process that can lead to the future of native Web video with more stakeholders are permitted to participate.
The giants of the Web video, such as Youtube and Vimeo, are clearly responding to emerging new web technology and adopt standards-based solutions that mesh better with the open Web.
Google rolled out an experimental HTML5-based player on YouTube that allows users to watch videos without having to depend on Adobe’s Flash plugin. See .This is an opt-in trial of HTML5 video on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for YouTube video playback.
Vimeo, another leading video hosting website, followed suit and has launched its own supporting the new web standard. To enable the HTML5 player, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video on Vimeo.com. If you have the latest Chrome or Safari on a PC, you can find this link for player switch under Vimeo videos. As Vimeo doesn’t use webm or ogg, they use h.264 instead. So Opera and Firefox are not compatible.
Are YouTube Vimeo Ready to Replace Flash with HTML5 Video? Although these two popular online video content platforms have been testing on HTML5 video since 2009, their HTML5 players still have many problems that need to be fixed before they can really replace Flash with HTML5 video.
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