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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. Where is it? by paul248 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So does anyone have an actual link to an example of the player? That seems like a rather blatant omission from the article.

    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. So... by Lanteran · · Score: 5, Funny

    So where's the link to the source code? I'd like to compile and test this video player.

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    1. 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:I'm working on a new Firefox / Safari plugin by AndreR · · Score: 5, Funny

    And it'll fall back to Flash if your browser doesn't support those.

  4. Slashdot: so dense it causes singularities by notsoclever · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nearly everyone seems to be missing the point to this. It's not something the user installs, it's something that content providers use to provide their video on the server side. This is a GOOD THING - it makes it much easier for websites to transition to HTML5 without alienating users who don't have HTML5-capable browsers.

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  5. Re:But why? by Tharsman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Elementary, my dear Watson.

    Adobe is not in the business of selling Flash Plugins, they are in the business of selling Flash Authoring Tools and Server Side technology. iTechnology has been selling like crazy, and hate as you may, it has started to result in pages that are designed to run in iDevices.

    With all these pages now out there, Flash suddenly becomes optional, it will not take long before Flash's buggy security issues make many to opt out of using Flash and just fall back on the HTML5 pages that were designed for the iDevices. It is wise of them to try to stop the flocking early, avoid people from developing their own home grown HTML5 Plug N Play migration tools, and offer them first.

    Once the big players opt to go Adobe's route, they may secure their web authoring dominance in a Flash Free World Wide Web.

  6. Re:Superb !! by omfgnosis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can do both without any library. The markup for HTML5 video with Flash as a fallback is, basically, a video tag wrapping source and object tags, and the object tag wrapping an embed tag. The markup for Flash with HTML5 video as a fallback is to simply move the object tag to the top of the hierarchy and the video tag within it. The relevant part of the HTML5 spec was designed *specifically* to make this possible, and it has been possible ever since the first browser with video-tag capability was released. No Adobe library (borrowed though it is) is necessary to achieve this.

    With all of that said, I can't imagine why you'd want to use Flash at the top of the hierarchy unless you're a sadist. Flash has more wrong with it than the fact that it's not open and requires a plugin.