HTML 5 video player
Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 15 February 2010 at 8:00am
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The last 6 months or so has seen a rise in interest from the web developer world with HTML5 (most of the web is built with HTML), as smart folk start to build examples of its new progressive features.
So why should we care? Those of us who are horizon scanning will be particularly interested in one of its powerful new features: the ability to play video without a plugin. Past and present, we rely on various plugins to watch video on the web, which can cause headaches if the final user's computer does not have the correct plugin.
HTML5 will help us provide video unrestricted by plugin. Below we link to a demo page that has an example of a HTML5 video player in action. At present this will only work in the latest versions of browsers for Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. My favourite feature is the ability to jump anywhere in the video and have it start immediately.
Visit the SublimeVideo player demo site for full details on this exciting development.
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Comment posted by Zak Mensah on 15 February 2010 at 10:49am
Hello Pete,
Up until this point we relied on codecs/plugins to make video work. The problem is that we cannot be sure if the viewer has the correct codec/plugin and thus they may not be able to view it or what commonly happens is that they can only hear the audio. With html5 we’ll all be able to throw video at the web knowing the it will work. There is still a small bit of technical knowledge required but the barrier is lowered. So when you chuck stuff on a blog/vle etc we have a higher chance the viewer will see it than we do today.
Cheers
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Comment posted by pete whitfield on 15 February 2010 at 10:03am
That looks (and sounds) cool. Can you tell us how this will affect us non-coding punters, who might create rough and ready movs and want to chuck them on blog and social network pages please?