Finally it is possible to watch youtube videos in html 5 format instead of the flash player. And I have found an easy way to take advantage of this new feature.
Full story »Finally it is possible to watch youtube videos in html 5 format instead of the flash player. And I have found an easy way to take advantage of this new feature.
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stargrave
14 years 35 weeks 6 days 22 min ago
Yeah, right
Aha, let's move from proprietary Adobe Flash to patent-encumbered H.264 codec (that is actually the same that was used in Flash-version AFAIK)! No way! I won't support this Google's spit to the side of freedom. Will be waiting while they will make a real step to free cyberspace. Currently, I am just ignoring and not using their services because of that.
stargrave
14 years 35 weeks 6 days 19 min ago
Video quality
Forgot to say: what are they talking about? How change of video player can play role in video quality? They just moved from Flash-based streaming video player of H.264 (in .flv) to HTML5 video-tag based one -- moved H.264 playing capabilities to browser. How can it change video quality if codec stayed the same?
akf
14 years 35 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago
not available for Free Software
The most important thing to mention here is that it only works with proprietary software. They suppose to install Chrome, which is unfree software. Don't forget: Chrome is not Chromium. It doesn't even work with Googles own Chromium!
Mr. Psychopath
14 years 35 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago
Actually...
I've been able to run HTML5 YouTube with Chromium quite easily for about the past week or so. I'd recommend trying out the Chromium-daily builds.