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YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5

Posted by timothy on from the when-it-happens-I'll-believe-it dept.

shadowmage13 writes "After the recent post about YouTube, so many votes were put in for HTML5 using Free and Open formats that Google has already cleared them all out (to make space for others) and issued an official response (requires Google login): 'We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because there are so many similar HTML5 ideas and we want to give other ideas a chance to be seen.' Now all the top ideas are concerning copyright and DMCA abuse."

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  1. Re:is html5 going to provide faster better video? by BikeHelmet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Video tags are easier to accelerate. They can be handled by just about anything. That means rather than being locked to Flash, it can be played with Xine/GStreamer on Linux, Quicktime on OSX, DirectShow on Windows, DSP codecs on your phone, etc.; it might also be possible to use VLC on any platform, although that defeats the "accelerate" part.

    And of course, you've always got Flash as a fallback.

    P.S. Posted before, but this might be of interest to someone: Javascript-free HTML5/Flash video embedding, which works on desktops as well as devices like the iPhone: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

  2. Re:is html5 going to provide faster better video? by Randle_Revar · · Score: 4, Informative

    VLC generally supports acceleration when os/driver/card support exists

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  3. Re:Can we dump flash now? by icebraining · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you use Firefox, have you tried some greasemonkey script that replace the Flash player with an embedded version? Like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46219

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  4. Re:Well then... by geckipede · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would prefer "be less like vimeo" because the only difference between them that affects me is that the youtube player decodes video efficiently enough that my processor can handle it, and vimeo is a browser locking slideshow.

  5. Re:is html5 going to provide faster better video? by moreati · · Score: 5, Informative

    First, do you have a citation for this 'massive' reduction in power?

    Langen, Germany, October 30, 2008 - Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) today expanded its line-up of H.264*1 CODECs with two new devices that encode and decode full high-definition (HD) (1920 dots x 1080 lines) Video in H.264 format. The first of the two products to be launched, the ultra-low power MB86H55, features power consumption of only 500mW during full HD encoding including the built-in memory, an industry-leading level for low power consumption. In addition, the upcoming MB86H56 will offer processing of full HD video at 60 frames-per-second (progressive) '60p'*2, to improve picture quality even further.

    -- http://embedded-computing.com/fujitsu-full-h-264-codecs

    That's half a Watt encoding HD, a general purpose CPU would be consuming tens, or even a hundred watts to do that.