YouTube HTML 5 Video Player (Beta)

[KoonerLive]

How did you get that cursor with flashing circle( while click)

[reevesAstronomy]

@KoonerLive I was experimenting with Screenflow (a demo version I think) and playing with all the options when I made this video.

[BleachByakuyaKuchiki]

some vidos are forcing me to watch them in that stupid laggy, buggy, ugly html5 player!

[FrozoneonE]

I'm also running with safari on my macbook pro and when i click the fullscreen button on HTML5 videos nothing happens. I left the trial and flash is back in action. Any thoughts on why it won't let me view videos in fullscreen?

[FPSNERDNR1]

MORE funny in 2x

[xX3twoXx]

when i use it my scrren is slow but the music goes normal

[ChampionRevilo]

I have a 3DS and from tonight, 3DS owners will be able to go on the Internet with it. It has Flash memory, but not Flash Player. Do you think it'll be able to play html5 videos?

[reevesAstronomy]

@ChampionRevilo I doubt that the browser (or the memory of the device) will be up to it, but it's always worth a try.

[ChampionRevilo]

@reevesAstronomy I tried AAAAAAAAAND....it didn't work :/

[blowyrmind01]

@ChampionRevilo as far as I know the 3DS browser doesn't support Flash or HTML5, which is a shame. Hopefully a dedicated youtube app will come at some point...

[LosTSouL99NL]

Thank god they implemented this, I use a pentium 4, and flash is just plain bad on this thing. HTML 5 seems a lot quicker. :)

[rifall]

I hope people will finally shut up about flash when this becomes standard. "there's no flash, it's useless. . . "  These people bug the hell out of me.

[Nightvisionlol]

why do i still always get flash player coming up on any video?

[reevesAstronomy]

@Nightvisionlol Any video with ads will play in the flash player. If that's not it, then your browser/operating system may not be supported.

[Nightvisionlol]

@reevesAstronomy I'm using the firefox 4 beta and still runs the flash version, annoying because flash is so slow and sucky on my macbook

[reevesAstronomy]

@Nightvisionlol On YouTube's html5 page it says: "On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTML5." So basically, it might be that only a small fraction of youtube videos are compatible with html5 while using Firefox. At the moment I'm using Google Chrome on my MacBook and it seems to work fine, although I still prefer flash.

[Nightvisionlol]

@reevesAstronomy Thanks, trying chrome now and I think its working, the buttons at the bottom look a bit different etc, but not the same as in this video, have they changed it recently?

Should be useful because flash is such a drain on mac and quite often it hangs with the spinning ball for ages when I first load up youtube.

[iGarthi]

@reevesAstronomy It's the video with ads yes, but it uses flash for videos that have alot of views so they can advertise on it, alot of views = flash, I forgot the range but basically low viewed videos will use the HTML5 version if you have opted in for it.

[Jeorney]

@Nightvisionlol Were you using IE9 before? if so, you need to turn off compatibility mode which you would have needed for the non-HTML5 version of YT. I thought IE9 could detect the change but i guess thats not the case.

[mondeost2202008]

Your video is being played on my laptop using HTML5 and it's smooth and I'm using a router =D

But it's going to kill android phones =P

I'm not an iPhone fan but Apple had already plans for their iPhone for this but since this is a beta version then I might be proven wrong.

But at least it works fine on a 5 year old laptop like mine.

[jnjoblon]

@reevesAstronomy

Great!

Thanks for sharing this information.

[srkkroh11]

bad cannot play on my phone.before old can play.i cannot see you tube on my phone .

[adamjr131]

Wow, I have a PPC G4 and the HTML 5 works a lot better then Flash!

[MegaZoneEXE]

is anyone experiencing the audio/video not syncing with HTML5?

[LordTebian]

I think it is cool but what will the people do with all the Flash Files they have in huge amounts. And you do know people go to school to learn flash for programing jobs. Just cause its better for a few companies its not the great for the professional who lose there jobs over it. Standards are something that make the web strong and new ideas by these companies are make it mush. Look at the browser wars for just one example of almost unusable things on the web now. Thanks for reply.

[rifall]

@LordTebian Flash programming is for websites. If you're writing programs you better damn learn something non-flash. Even then, I'm hoping HTML5 will show that we can stop depending on flash for everything.

[LordTebian]

Great video except that the list of browsers that it works with is zero usage in comparison to the numbers that people use on my 3 websites. People still use Firefox and then IE according to the facts. If we all have to switch to some new browser it will not work and not matter how hard the try to force us to use html5 it will die like many other "standards" that failed. Thanks for explaining how it works and it will kill youtube finally if it they make it the standard.

[reevesAstronomy]

@LordTebian A few other large video sites are looking into HTML 5 because it uses less bandwidth and since I made this video, the player has gotten a lot better, although it still does not have ads or full screen capability. HTML 5 isn't going to be a failed standard since it will replacing the HTML 4 that used across the internet. Whether or not it will work well for video very remains to be seen.

[SporeCreator2009]

youtube doesnt support firefox because firefox cant use H.264 codec for licensing issues. Firefox uses OGG Theora

[fumfulapenguin]

sliders not working

[assholemon]

html5 has less quality than flash, but loads faster

flash has better quality but it takes some time to load

but html5 is starting

i want both to coexist

both are good btw

[lamrof]

I did not see any plugin for it, just click of a link. So I am not sure how it works for Chrome and firefox.

Also the CPU usage is the same as the dreaded flash player at 50% for me to play this video in this page.

Also is this for youtube only? I tried someother flash streaming site with Chrome and failed to work unless flash players was plugged in.

[reevesAstronomy]

@lamrof It works using similar kinds of HTML codes that are used to display anything else on a web page (at least I'm pretty sure that's how it works).

And yes, it only applies to YouTube although other sites will likely eventually use it, but at this point it is still in development and performance can be pretty bad at times.

[lamrof]

I did not see any plugin for it, just click of a link. So I am not sure how it works for Chrome and firefox.

Also the CPU usage is the same as the dreaded flash player at 50% for me to play this video in this page.

[SqeakyGoldfish]

If you use Safari, you can Google a program called WebKit, which is better for HTML5. It somehow uses a duplicate of the Safari Web Browser, but it supports HTML5 videos in full screen and all that.

[darrenschnare]

The video worked great for me and my laptop is over 2 years old. And my FAN never came on! Looking forward to axing Flash!

[Ih8tejustinbieber]

The html is okay, but it lags. I have a fairly new laptop, hp Pavillion notebook with windows vista yet it takes forever to buffer on html.

What a fail.

[atronix]

@Ih8tejustinbieber Not for me actually, I have an HP Pavillion too, a notebook. And its way better, it load way faster.

[FluffnRipples]

@Ih8tejustinbieber

Yeah same here; and if you noticed the quality is slightly pixilated in the HTML5 format.

[saguy98]

Wow, the graphics are so nice, no matter what the video. It loads so fast on every resolution. The speed changer is ftw, and the bigger screen and HD is epic. just epic. the future is coming.

[saguy98]

Just one tiny problem, the screen lags, not the video, it takes a while for the screen to show when you change speeds.

[jhochadel1]

Right now I'm impressed simply by the fast load times. Flash 720p videos loaded very slowly (in fact, so did some of the lower resolutions too) but now they load extremely fast. Full screen is definitely something I'm looking forward to, but I can wait.

[robertlam18]

not very impress with the beta. Let's see how that develops.

[Genshyu]

Browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox better start working on HTML5 or they will loose allot of people, not to mention that every person that's new to computes use Internet Explorer, and they will be wondering why they cant view this site, that site, or what ever you know?

[ZOMGxuan]

Yeah, though i don't think the term open source or not open source applies to a format or codec. It's more that the h.264 codec is proprietary or patent-encumbered. So the question is, will there ever be HTML5 youtube video for firefox? It's unlikely that Google will suddenly support ogg theora as well. Perhaps someone could write a firefox extension that allows for h.264 HTML5 video, so it's not included by default, thereby not compromising the "open-sourceness" of firefox.

[ZOMGxuan]

this is a great development. but it doesn't work on firefox yet, even though firefox does have HTML5 video element support :( . Because the google dudes (and apple) like h.264, but mozilla likes ogg theora.

[ctoon6]

Mozilla does not use h.264 because it is not open source and not conducive to an open web. using mp4 and .264 closes the web not expands it. I just hope that Mozilla don't add support for closed source formats.

[israelismyname]

way better then the sucks adobe flash.great to see solution for macintosh users.

[katakisLives]

Looks good! I hope it works well in Internet explorer!

[saglek]

Good commentary. Note your frequent rising inflection, usually an indicator of a question rather than a statement.

Keep at it... even if they don't subscribe! ;< )

[reevesAstronomy]

Thanks for the tip.