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Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos
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| A while ago, YouTube launched a simple demo
| of an HTML5-based video player. Recently,
| we published a blog post on our pre-spring
| cleaning effort and your number one request
| was that YouTube do more with HTML5. Today,
| we're introducing an experimental version
| of an HTML5-supported player.
|
| HTML5 is a new web standard that is gaining
| popularity rapidly and adds many new
| features to your web experience. Most
| notably for YouTube users, HTML5 includes
| support for video and audio playback. This
| means that users with an HTML5 compatible
| browser, and support for the proper audio
| and video codecs can watch a video without
| needing to download a browser plugin.
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http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html
YouTube Offers HTML5 Video Player as Flash Alternative
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| YouTube on Wednesday announced that the
| popular video-sharing Website will now
| support HTML5 for video playback. HTML5,
| for the uninitiated, is an in-development
| Web standard that aims to add various
| niceties and enhancements to the modern
| Web-browsing experience.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/187388/youtube_offers_html5_video_player_as_flash_alternative.html?tk=rss_news
Google, Apple, the MAFIAA, and the racketeering scheme afoot in Youtube.
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| UnfortunatelyâThe World Wide Web
| Consortium, the people who draft and
| implement web standards, were coerced by a
| cartel of corporate bad guys like Apple,
| the RIAA/MPAA (the MAFIAA), and Google, to
| drop an unpatented, fully documented,
| public domain, royalty free set of codecs
| that *any* browser or user can use (Ogg
| Theora and Vorbis) in favor of the heavily
| patented, restricted license, royalty-
| encumbered h.264 and AAC, which only the
| aforementioned cartel can afford to
| implement or use.
|
| Yes, I know that these codecs are
| widespread, and itâs mainly because Apple
| sells them on iTunes, but using AAC (or any
| other patented codec) in and of itself is
| nearly as bad as using a DRM-encumbered AAC
| that had everyone up in arms. (Yeah, I
| would say that MP3 is the least bad of your
| proprietary options, if you have to use
| proprietary. That doesnât make it peachy.)
| Patent-encumbered codecs are the next best
| thing to DRM.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/google-apple-the-mafiaa-and-the-racketeering-scheme-afoot-in-youtube/
Google betas Flash-free YouTube sans open codec
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| A Google spokesman indicated that the
| choice of H.264 over Ogg does not mean the
| company has picked H.264 for an eventual
| Flash-free version of YouTube. "Support for
| HTML5 is just a TestTube experiment at this
| time and a starting point," he said. "We
| can't comment specifically on what codecs
| we intend to support, but we're open to
| supporting more of them over time. At the
| very least we hope to help further this
| active and ongoing discussion."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/youtube_html5_player/
Recent:
Vote for HTML5 open video (WE DID IT!)
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| WE DID IT! Thanks everyone!!!
|
| http://productideas.appspot.com/#8/e=3d60a
|
| Official response:
|
| We've heard a lot of feedback around
| supporting HTML5 and are working hard to
| meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll
| be following up when we have more
| information. We're answering this idea
| now because there are so many similar
| HTML5 ideas and we want to give other
| ideas a chance to be seen.
|
| [...]
|
| YouTube Team
|
| Party time!
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-January/000838.html
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