Looks like raring is grabbing a default flash player from somewhere. When trying to run a video , youtube correctly tells me that flash-pligin is not installed ... but proceeds to play flawlessly
When you don't have flash installed, youtube plays with HTML5 player.
Originally Posted by ventrical Looks like raring is grabbing a default flash player from somewhere. When trying to run a video , youtube correctly tells me that flash-pligin is not installed ... but proceeds to play flawlessly @Ventrical not for me
Last edited by serdotlinecho; March 5th, 2013 at 04:10 PM.
Originally Posted by serdotlinecho @Ventrical not for me Not all videos are available in HTML5...
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all youtube videos are playable in html5 every single video is available as mp4. I don't use flash for security reasons. If you use internet explorer 10 in windows7 without flash you will notice all videos play flawlessly in ubuntu with firefox or chromium you will notice some videos will complain about not being able to play without flash e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXIcQaNiy0g now observe how easily we can make it play without flash: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXIcQaNiy0g it has nothing to do with flash but everything to do with ads and youtube partners and monetization and google shenanigans in your channel settings turn off ads and monetization etc etc and your channel will be 100% html5: https://www.youtube.com/user/nomenkultur I haven't used flash in over a year now and everything in my youtube works fine also in case you didn't know https://www.youtube.com/tv#/browse
Last edited by nomenkultur; March 5th, 2013 at 06:49 PM.
Originally Posted by nomenkultur all youtube videos are playable in html5 Just yesterday I encountered a video that is unavailable in html5 and had to exit html5-trial just to watch it... Unfortunately that video is today removed by author due to some controversial content (long story, musician, drug, alcohol, police...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKdbY_g87Q4 ... That is why I wrote that not all are available... Several weeks ago I had similar situation but I ignored it since content of video was not interesting that much to me... I might be missing something but... Update₁: I might be paying penalty for being the member of HTL5 testing (not so secret ) society... Once I've left that group it seems that it really works. It hesitates a second and then it goes... I'll investigate more... Thank You... Originally Posted by nomenkultur now observe how easily we can make it play without flash: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXIcQaNiy0g With downside ie. size of the player increases which is not desirable always...
Last edited by zika; March 5th, 2013 at 07:46 PM.
Originally Posted by zika Not all videos are available in HTML5... That's why I disabled flash plugins to test it now observe how easily we can make it play without flash: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXIcQaNiy0g @nomenkultur, I never knew about the "embed" tricks before. Just edit the url bar and I can watch the video without flash plugins. Yeah...
Originally Posted by zika It hesitates a second and then it goes... I'll investigate more... Thank You... With downside ie. size of the player increases which is not desirable always... Yeah .. thats it basically. And no offset *blue* like during other testing with flash-plugin. I just started the thread because I was surprised that it worked. I always had to install flash-plugin to get anything to work on youtube.. so perhaps this is one of the surprises?? and... great .. if it has been around for a while I certainly haven't noticed it.
Originally Posted by ventrical Yeah .. thats it basically. And no offset *blue* like during other testing with flash-plugin. I just started the thread because I was surprised that it worked. I always had to install flash-plugin to get anything to work on youtube.. so perhaps this is one of the surprises?? and... great .. if it has been around for a while I certainly haven't noticed it. For me it was masked by belonging to HTML5-Test-whatewer...
I run internet video on ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, Washington Post, Huffington Post, LA Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, ABC Australia, Picasa, some You Tube, Pretoria News, on and on. As part of setup on my installs - every week or so on one or another of my 3 test pc's - I automatically do flashplugin-installer. I've got 2 Android tablets. One runs most of the videos the other just some videos. Guess which one I use the most. From time to time I run Linux Mint 14 which runs all these videos "out of the box". Nice. Whatever Linux or Browser doesn't do all the videos, I won't use. Linux is supposed to be customizable, so I don't look for development to put any road blocks in the way.
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