Google, Vimeo, trial online video without Flash
Online video without buffering or the need to install Flash plug-ins has come a step closer to the mainstream. Both YouTube and fellow video site Vimeo are testing players which use HTML 5 to get round these problems.
Both site’s systems work with the latest editions of Safari and Chrome, and can also work with Internet Explorer as long as Chrome Frame is installed. At the moment clips on Vimeo can’t be watched in full-screen, but that should be rectified in a couple of days. The YouTube edition can’t currently cope with clips carrying subtitles, annotations or built-in advertising.
The tests have prompted some criticism as both sites have opted to use the h.264 format for the clips, as opposed to an open source format such as Ogg. That’s the reason the clips can’t currently be viewed in Firefox or Opera. Vimeo seems particularly tired of the criticism, writing, “Please don’t comment here extolling the virtues of open source or unencumbered codecs. We know, it’s our job to know, and that conversation has been had a million times.”
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