YouTube now defaults to HTML5 <video>

JWJones · 01-27-2015, 08:15 PM

Sweet, now perhaps Flash can go die in the corner...

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015...-html5_27.html

cepheus11 · 01-28-2015, 02:32 AM

Good news, thanks. I use firefox 31 (esr version), but if I spoof the useragent for youtube.com to look like firefox 36 it tells me it will use HTML5, and it does, and everything works. Without cookies or addons, nice.

http://youtube.com/html5

replica9000 · 01-28-2015, 12:12 PM

Now if I could only ditch Chrome to use Firefox to play Netflix...

I'm on Firefox 36. Going to the youtube.com/html5 show's I have 3 of the 6 boxes checked. Chrome show's I have all 6 checked.

cepheus11 · 01-28-2015, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by replica9000

Going to the youtube.com/html5 show's I have 3 of the 6 boxes checked.

You can up this to 5 if you set "media.mediasource.enabled" to "true" in about:config.

But netflix needs the encrypted media extensions, only chrome has these.

replica9000 · 01-28-2015, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cepheus11

You can up this to 5 if you set "media.mediasource.enabled" to "true" in about:config.

But netflix needs the encrypted media extensions, only chrome has these.

Thanks for the tip! So now it's just "MSE & H.264" that's not checked.

Bret W · 01-29-2015, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by JWJones

Sweet, now perhaps Flash can go die in the corner...

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015...-html5_27.html

YYYEEESSS!!! Let's hope that other websites follow their lead and drop adobe flash for good.

syg00 · 01-29-2015, 08:43 PM

As if - youtube has had the option to use HTML5 for ages, I've never had a problem. The rest of the web, that's any story ...

replica9000 · 01-29-2015, 08:51 PM

After the world ends, the only thing that will be left are roaches and Flash.