[Laszlo-dev] HTML5 video by Youtube and Vimeo...

[P T Withington]

On 2010-01-22, at 06:25, Raju Bitter wrote:

> Did you see the announcement of HTML5 video for Youtube and Vimeo?
> http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html
>> A while ago, YouTube launched a simple demo of an HTML5-based video player. Recently, we published a blog post on
>> our pre-spring cleaning effort and your number one request was that YouTube do more with HTML5. Today, we're
>> introducing an experimental version of an HTML5-supported player.
> 
> 
> http://vimeo.com/blog:268
>> What's the HTML5 player, you ask? Simply put, it's an alternative to our current Flash player that looks and works
>> almost exactly the same way. What are the benefits?
>>   The player loads right away -- no more spinning butterfly thingy
>>   You can jump anywhere in the video, without having to wait for it to buffer
>>   Smoother, less jumpy playback (we hope)
>> ....
>> It only works for about 25% of you: you must be running the latest versions of Safari, Chrome, or IE with Chrome Frame installed.
> 
> Hmmm, probably time to tackle an OpenLaszlo version:
> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8290

Indeed.

It's funny.  Apple gave u-toob a great incentive to re-encode their videos as H.264.  If you use the click-to-flash plug-in, somehow it tells u-toob to deliver the H.264 if it is available.  I guess it pretends to be an iphone?  But then it just uses quicktime as the player.  I'm not sure I understand what it means to have an "html 5" player.  There are html buttons that control the playback?  Is there more?