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YouTube HTML5.. fantastic!

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kolax

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Mar 20, 2007
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I've started using YouTube in the HTML5 beta. It really is fantastic. Few quirks here and there and no full screen yet, but the video playback is silky smooth and my CPU usage is between 4-11%!

I really can't wait until YouTube fully adopts HTML5.

Can finally watch YouTube videos without my battery decreasing 1% a minute..!

Hoping it'll be near completion soon.
 
can you point me to a video link that for sure has HTML5 capability? I keep getting Flash.
 
It works in Safari, not only Firefox. YouTube takes time to adjust your account from their servers to actually serve HTML5 content. I just watched my own video in HTML5, barely put a dent in my CPU usage.
 
I like it. Now if only Hulu would give people this option we could put a stop to the never ending flash on the iPad debate.
 
NT1440 said:
BETA.
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More like: Firefox doesn't currently support H.264 for the HTML5 <video> tag. Others do. :( Unless Youtube starts encoding in both H.264 and Ogg Theora (unlikely), you'll have to wait for the Firefox team to change their minds.

I'm loving it, though. So much nicer than Flash.

p.s. Also not quite sure what this is doing in Peripherals.
 
I still get a few issues with the HTML5, some videos will just show a black video and loud pops will repeatedly play through the length of the video so I guess that is why it is still in beta.
 
apfhex said:
More like: Firefox doesn't currently support H.264 for the HTML5 <video> tag. Others do. :( Unless Youtube starts encoding in both H.264 and Ogg Theora (unlikely), you'll have to wait for the Firefox team to change their minds.
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I don't think the Firefox team will change their minds. Surely they'd have to pay royalties for distributing H.264? I think they'd rather try and make the standard open (in this case Ogg Theora).
 
-Ryan- said:
I don't think the Firefox team will change their minds. Surely they'd have to pay royalties for distributing H.264? I think they'd rather try and make the standard open (in this case Ogg Theora).
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As far as I'm aware, there's no royalties for free internet broadcasts.. nothing about royalties for a player/browser.

The royalties apply to actual content in that format (more specifically payware content).
 
Kilamite said:
As far as I'm aware, there's no royalties for free internet broadcasts.. nothing about royalties for a player/browser.

The royalties apply to actual content in that format (more specifically payware content).
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We (the company I work for) paid royalties for the H.264 codec implemented for our telecommunication platform (video calling stuff on 3G). It is my understanding that anyone implementing an H.264 codec for commercial or non-commercial purposes must pay the royalty to the patent holders. There is no royalty for H.264 for a piece of media that has been previously encoded. It is only the encoding and decoding software that must license the codec.
 
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