I may be wrong but I believe HTML5 is free whereas Google has to pay a fee to Adobe to use Flash. So they are not crazy, just practical. However, I just ran a same 720p video in HTML5 and Adobe Flash and the Flash video ran a lot smoother for me. So I will be keeping Flash as my default Youtube player for now, until they remove all the kinks from HTML5 playback.
I almost always get system "Out Of Memory" type messages when playing bigger Youtube content (1hour+) in HTML5, never happens when I play them using Flash.
How do you know if you're watching HTML5 or Flash in Firefox? I'm woefully ignorant on this subject. ***UPDATE*** I disabled my Flash plugin and opened a YouTube video and it tried to load Flash, then went to HTML5. Then I enabled Flash again and it went to it by default. Using FF31.
On YouTube, right click on the video and at the bottom of the menu, it reads "About the HTML5 player."
Appreciate it. I did finally figure that out, but it's not using HTML5 by default, at least not the videos I'm trying. May not be 100% implemented.
HTML5 is the default player only for IE 11, Chrome, Safari 8 and Firefox beta. Regular Firefox still defaults to Flash.
Raza0007, perhaps you want to review these 2 pages for HTML5 <video> Browser Support: W3Schools.com and Wikipedia.
For those with Firefox, just go https://www.youtube.com/html5 and enable it. That still works. If youtube is one of the very few sites you even use Flash for, you could even go into plugins and set Flash to "Ask to Activate".
Yes, I know that Firefox can play HTML5 video. I was just pointing out that Youtube defaults to HTML5 only on IE 11, Chrome, Safari 8 and Firefox betas right now, as per the announcement of Jan 27th. The stable official Firefox will default to Flash on Youtube right now.
I have a funny issue everytime that I watch Youtube HTML5 videos on Chrome and XP32, the Windows clock accelerates and I have to sync it manually every day to keep it right.
That's why I have the UAControl installed in FF nightly. No more problems with being forced to HTML5.
Didn't think of that, but like you said yourself, HTML 5 is not ready yet. I also noticed that it will download whole movies, that's a complete waste of bandwidth. I do think it's strange that on each browsers it seems to work differently, on Firefox I get HTML5 video, but on Chrome and Opera 12, I get Flash.
About ten years ago I dumped Adobe Reader and I’ve been waiting about that long to toss Adobe Flash into the garbage pit of history and remove the port 1935 block in my firewall. And did so, 10-12 months back, I forget. Since then, there hasn’t been one yootoob video that hasn’t played. (Off thread: Many news, media and commerce sites have stepped up, too.) HTML5 is the best not-ready-yet thing ever on teh webbuhnetz. Browsers “on my system” since I uninstalled Flash have been Firefox, Pale Moon64 and current (probably forever) fav, Cyberfox64 and some flavors of Chrome. Works really great in IE, too. If for some reason I am forced at gunpoint to view some archaic backwater site’s low life video, I’ll run Google Chrome 64 portable with Pepper Flash enabled. FYI: Flash Control is the best I’ve found so far Mozilla extension for controlling HTML5 content. Enter the 21st Century and join the TRASH FLASH movement. Any yes, it's been me wasting all that bandwidth. Cheers.
I have noticed one slight glitch with HTML5, I have chrome set to click to play & if I go to youtube & click to play the video & then try to change it to HD before I can do that it goes back to the click to play grey screen.
HTML5 isn't a plugin, you shouldn't be seeing "click to play" in the first place. It should just play.
I'm using Firefox here, but anyone else noticing being capped at around 720p for resolution with HTML5, but if watched in Flash then you get the higher resolutions like 1080, 4k, etc?
Exactly. Firefox too I take it? Like I'm wondering if it's one of the reasons they don't default to HTML5 with Firefox yet. Even with Flash, I think Chrome is still the only browser that can play 60fps vids still.