How to Play HTML 5 Video with a Fallback to Flash

[LeetKillaDethKrew]

doesn't work, chrome & safari both display flash & html5 at the same time

[msEmmamolina]

Hey guys is there a way to just house only one video format from your ftp to convert it to mp4,ogg,webm on the fly?

[19sharethepain97]

cheater i fucking write everything in a fucking txt!

[howtocreatewebsite]

This video inspires me with to tackle this myself. Thanks

[miXn]

Hm... is it possible to just rename a movies ending, or won't that work in Firefox?

I have this video called video.mp4 and I renamed it into video.ogg but it's still not working in Firefox? :|

[degoban]

On window (93%) flash should be the first choice cause it's much better.

[Kuscheltierfilme]

@degoban lol, no!? Flash can't be better for video playback as long as it's proprietary.

[degoban]

@Kuscheltierfilme ok, dude, on windows playback video in flash is much, much better then any browser available right now, HTML5 on HD is so bad that you can't even compare the 2 player. So if you are not a fanboy, you should support the better choice: flash first. On mac you can do whatever jobs tell you, I don't care.

[Kuscheltierfilme]

@degoban You don't get the point. Since HTML 5 is OPEN it has the potential to become much better in the future. Using Flash you are locked to Adobe and if they can't fix performance problems or stability problems you're fucked. With HTML 5 you have multiple platforms that support this standard and because browsers are already in a competitive situation, HTML 5 performance will become better. Just watch the improvements in Javascript performance over the last years.

[degoban]

@Kuscheltierfilme No you don't understand. HTML5 have just a new tag for video, but to play it you need a codec, Apple is pushing for H264, that it's not OPEN. So all your arguments have no sense, and that's why Firefox don't what it.

In the last 20 years people embedded video anyway. Flash turned out to be the best thing for the job, and still is, I don't care if in 2 years if browsers will play video better, right now the right choice is Flash. If you want to so a fall back for mac, fine.

[tsitra360]

@degoban haha your conversation with Kuscheltierfilme cracks me up. I don't think he ever brought the topic of Mac up...you did. I don't care either way. To me we all win anyways because Flash is improving its stability and performance whereas HTML5 is getting stronger with features and stability.  As a user this is a win/win.

[dinop007]

nice and clear TUT

[ratnushock]

Nice tutorial.

So we still in HTML 5 use the "embed" tag to show flash videos..

Is it possible to use another source element iniside the video tag but specifying the type to flash video or something?

[alaralp]

You guys rock, thanks so much for the tutorial :)