Does anyone have any experience with html5 for playing
videos on a mac and pc. Someone told me that it’s buggy.
With html5 does that allow you to have your videos play on pc and mac and ipad?
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tl;dr: NO!
Finding the right combination of encoding and fallback Flash player can be tricky to work out, but once you have it all figured out, the result is very very good in all modern browsers. Very little code for you, and universal playability.
Here’s the Sublime player:
http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/sublime/
…which you should try in lots of different browsers and platforms. I’m using the free version on this page, but my client pays $99 a year to use it on his site without the tasteful logo in the bottom corner. (I actually think he wouldn’t mind showing the logo, but he also needed to send the videos under SSL, which the free player does not support.)
At the bare minimum, all you have to do to use it is to encode your video in H.264 MPEG 4, save a JPEG of the poster frame, add a classname of ‘sublime’ to the video on your page. (Well, you also have to sign up for the service, and include a javascript link in your page head to your own unique API endpoint. View source on that example page to see how little code there really is.)
I actually converted my sample video to Ogg/Theora and WebM for Firefox and Chrome support, respectively, but if you skip that, both of those browsers will use the Flash fallback automatically.
Firefox may be switching to support H.264 soon, there have been rumblings from them that they are going to be pragmatic about it after all, despite their very principled stand against software patents. No telling what Google will do with Chrome – I believe it supports H.264, but they were trying very hard to push WebM as an alternate format, and they can certainly afford to wait. The 300lb gorilla here is Apple and its iOS devices, which will only ever play H.264. At the rate that those are being sold (and sold into new markets where traditional computers have rarely tread), they are going to sway this decision in a big way. Finally, most video cards on major platforms support hardware decoding of H.264 video, which makes it very easy on the processor. (This is why iPad can play 10 hours of video on a single charge – it’s not trying to do all that decoding in software on the CPU.)
If you don’t want to do all this over again later, I would do H.264 MPEG and the Sublime player and just be done with it. You will please most of the people, most of the time.
Walter
On Mar 25, 2012, at 10:23 PM, bob wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with html5 for playing
videos on a mac and pc. Someone told me that it’s buggy.
With html5 does that allow you to have your videos play on pc and mac and ipad?
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Just to throw in here, I haven’t read it, got it just this night, but this looks interesting.
Interview with Paul Irish, HTML5 expert
and community leader
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/inspire/april2012/articles/article2/index.html?trackingid=JRLII
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wrote my 2 cents here (very similar to Walter’s suggestions), so it’s not always a good idea to open two lists that basically have one theme:
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/106867
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Thomas
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