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Vimeo Also Introduces HTML5 Video Player

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-set-top-boxes dept.

bonch writes "Following in YouTube's footsteps, Vimeo has now introduced its own beta HTML5 video player, and like YouTube, it uses H.264 and requires Safari, Chrome, or ChromeFrame. The new player doesn't suffer the rebuffering problems of the Flash version when clicking around in the video's timeline, and it also loads faster. HTML5 could finally be gaining some real momentum."

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  1. Re:Excellent. by Sir+Homer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    H.264 could lead to a situation like when GIF was patented, where if you had a GIF on your website you could be sued if you didn't pay for some $5000 license. I don't know if some of you are old enough to remember that, but it sucked.