October 26, 2010

YouTube's HTML5 Player Trial

YouTube might default to the the HTML5 player even if you haven't enabled the experimental feature. If you're using a supported browser (the latest versions of Chrome, Safari, Opera, IE9 beta, Firefox 4 beta), YouTube could test the new player.

"You are in a trial for HTML5 video on YouTube. Some users of supported browsers are automatically entered in to the trial. If you wish to leave the trial, use the link at the bottom. HTML5 is a new browser technology that allows us to show videos without the Flash plugin," explains YouTube.


If you right-click on the video, you'll see a menu that offers two options: "save video as" and "about HTML5". You might assume that "save video as" lets you download the video, but it actually sends you to this video.
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15 comments:

  1. KoDOctober 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ is blocked in India. Duh.

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  2. Sean TOctober 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM

    @KoD That's okay, you just get Rick rolled.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    youtube is rickrolling! :D

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  4. MikeOctober 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM

    Unfortunately the rick roll isn't even an HTML5 video.

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  5. Mrrix32October 26, 2010 at 1:09 PM

    Click "Save Video As" and what do I see?

    <>

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  6. Mrrix32October 26, 2010 at 1:09 PM

    Ok that failed, was meant to be:

    This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM

    I had this trail set up on me but after a while, I notice that HTML5/WebM videos were loading slower than Flash and there was some jumpiness when moving the video forward. I deleted my YouTube cookie and went back to Flash.

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  8. ArpitOctober 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM

    This Chrome extension claims to force YouTube to play videos in HTML5.

    https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/clbpnceimfklokcaoajgigdoeoanimeh?hl=en

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  9. ssj4gogetaOctober 26, 2010 at 7:21 PM

    @Arpit: Or you can just enter their HTML5 experiment.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM

    Did they get rid of the Full Screen format? That's lame.

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  11. DavidOctober 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM

    how can I download HTML5 video's?

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  12. ShackirOctober 30, 2010 at 5:07 AM

    This is best.

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  13. AnonymousNovember 28, 2010 at 12:17 AM

    They don't have full screen support yet. All you have to do is make the youtube html5 window full screen and then make your browser window full screen.

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  14. AnonymousNovember 28, 2010 at 5:01 PM

    the picture quality is poor

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  15. Milt DemarayMay 17, 2012 at 8:04 PM

    My audio stopped working. There was no indication that I had been entered in a trial. I had to dick around quite a bit to figure out that I had been HAD! This is piss-poor development work, if you have to snare people into debugging your software! I thought YouTube was big-time, but I guess NOT.
    The problem-report features didn't even have a choice for audio problems.

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