HTML5 and YouTube

[3Miro]

OMG many YouTube videos now run on HTML5. This is awesome, I can now actually watch videos without sacrificing one core on my CPU.

The trial has been going on for some time now, but things were not very stable. Now HTML5 works like magic.

I am using Chromium 11.0.696.68 and I love the

http://www.youtube.com/html5

[Lucradia]

Some videos will still glitch sound with HTML5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edT-KHEEZgc

[leviathan8]

I actually find this a lot more CPU hungry at the very beginning, because of the heavy load of buffering, (a 2 minutes video loads up in like less than 5 seconds, wow!) but after that it is using a lot less processing power when compared to Flash.

[3Miro]

Some videos will still glitch sound with HTML5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edT-KHEEZgc

It is a trial still, but I get perfect sound on this video.

[3Miro]

I actually find this a lot more CPU hungry at the very beginning, because of the heavy load of buffering, (a 2 minutes video loads up in like less than 5 seconds, wow!) but after that it is using a lot less processing power when compared to Flash.

Overall it uses much less CPU power, this great for power savings and watching videos while doing something else (like encoding another video).

[weasel fierce]

I just started testing it, and its pretty nice. Interestingly, it seems to buffer almost all of the video up front. Nifty.

[heartbeatz]

What's the difference?

[3Miro]

What's the difference?

You don't need to deal with he horrors of flash. Flash has many problems on Windows and even more so on Linux.

For me HTML5 is the difference between 100% CPU and 25% CPU usage, much smoother and much lighter.

[Maheriano]

What's the difference?

As an advocate of open source standards I hope you're joking.
Flash is closed source so if it doesn't work right, there's nothing we can do about it. HTML5 is an open standard that people can develop for based on the open source code standard. Even if it has bugs now, they'll no doubt be worked out soon.

Steve Jobs and many Macintosh users will be happy.

[Fedz]

WOW! well impressed Whoop!
Used less cpu, loaded way faster than flash & played perfect.
Hated flash it was s-l-o-w, html5 ... bring it on