HTML5 YouTube viewer: close, but not quite there
The Download Squad team had mixed results watching videos with this viewer. Firefox was a bust - NeoSmart says it's because of proprietary codec issues - but some other browsers worked. I got working video (extremely smooth working video, actually) on both Chrome and Safari for Mac, but no audio. Meanwhile, on the Windows side, fellow Download Squad bloggers report that the HTML5 viewer works well in Chrome 4 in XP, and Chrome 3 on Windows 7.
Meanwhile,YouTube seems to be running its own HTML5 tests, including some examples of new in-browser 3D rendering features. Sounds like this could finally be the end of reliance on Flash ... once your browser supports it, or once YouTube starts supporting OGG Theora, Firefox and Chrome's video format of choice for HTML5.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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iisjreg said 7:09PM on 11-08-2009
Works well, A LOT smoother than flash.
Niiiiice.
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Jack said 7:29PM on 11-08-2009
Works great in Chromium for Linux, you do need to install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree first though.
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motang said 8:01PM on 11-08-2009
I thought Ogg Theroa was the choice of Mozilla and Opera and Apple and Google were backing MPEG4.
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MySchizoBuddy said 1:06AM on 11-09-2009
Mozilla/Opera supports ONLY ogg theora
Apple supports ONLY h.264
Google supports BOTH ogg theora and h.264. both of them work in chrome
haydenstreater said 11:57PM on 11-08-2009
Safari 4.0.3 build 6539.1 (mac) worked perfect. very smooth video playback, sound and great loading times. FLASH BEGONE!
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kojo87 said 2:28AM on 11-09-2009
damn. i really want Flash off my system but until this works with Firefox on Windows 7 it looks like im stuck.
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Droz said 3:52AM on 11-09-2009
This worked really well for me too - though, with safari 4 for os x, I'd been using "click-to-flash" in order to force quicktime to load the h.264 stream straight up if available - works like a charm. still, good alternative...
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Brian! said 5:46AM on 11-09-2009
Flash haters, lol.
First, at least Flash is ONE player that does work. One place to update. The day internet video is all in HTML5 will mean that support for something new or better will take forever because we have to wait for every browser to agree, for people to install, blah, blah, blah. Heck, HTML5 is a great case in point. Since the spec was started we have had multiple releases of the Flash player updating with new features and better performance.
I am happy that Flash came along and took over online video. Perhaps you forget the days when you had to encode into Quicktime, Windows Media, and Real player formats in hopes that you might have the right one up there for your audience.
I don't have much faith in the HTML standard in giving me a toolset for compelling rich media. Already one has to use a plethora of Javascript to make HTML somewhat more dynamic and interesting giving us Web2.0. But once I move into media and motion graphics, well, I would rather just have the right tool for the job.
I mean come on, look what can be done: http://thefwa.com/
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