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Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player

Posted by timothy on from the our-very-own-kitchen-sink dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Webmonkey has an interesting tidbit about Adobe's release of its own HTML5 video player: 'Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash. Using Adobe's new player, these devices can show videos in web pages without the Flash plug-in.'"

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  1. Re:Where is it? by sgtstein · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/widgetbrowser/ Second link I saw when I scanned the page. Looks like you need to use their "Widget browser" to be able to download and use it.

  2. Re:So... by FairAndUnbalanced · · Score: 5, Informative

    Adobe based their player on Kaltura's library: http://www.html5video.org/ (also see http://www.kaltura.org/project/HTML5_Video_Media_JavaScript_Library)

  3. Re:Great. And Flash continues to be a plague by ak_hepcat · · Score: 4, Informative

    FlashBlock.. Only play the flash that you want to play. no more cpu hogging!

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  4. Re:Superb !! by stoanhart · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not a browser plug-in. It's HTML/Javascript code that you place in your page where you want the video to appear. It will try to use HTML5 first, and then use Flash if it fails.

  5. Re:Superb !! by Firehed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't that called... HTML5? Such as

    <video>
            <source src="file.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>
            <source src="file.ogv" type="video/ogg"/>
            <embed>fallback flash player</embed>
    </video>

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