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HTML5 video
whizse Feb 29, 2012
Hi,

Not sure if this has been suggested previously, but is there any chance of supporting HTML5 video?

At the moment I only get a warning about a missing plugin in Firefox, even though I'm in the HTML5 YouTube beta. (It's even worse in Epiphany. I get a screenfull of binary nonsense, but that's probably a bug in itself).

As far as I know, YouTube has some sort of auto detection for this when you use the normal embedding code as this just works pretty much everywhere else.

Thanks in advance,
Hamish Feb 29, 2012
Not all videos are supported with HTML5 on YouTube. The video you tried might just be one of these videos.

If it was one that worked, based on my experience, you should have not had any issues.
whizse Feb 29, 2012
Right, I know, but then there's a different error message. Also, this happens with every single embedded video here.

The problem seems to be that it hardcodes the URL to the flash stuff, such as:
http://www.youtube.com/v/Py7HJiOeJjw&fs=1
Wget that and you get a blob of application/x-shockwave-flash.


If I instead visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7HJiOeJjw I get a nice HTML5 video.

Edit: The forum mangled the URLs I tried to post. Let's see if this works.
whizse Feb 29, 2012
It looks like this could be fixed by switching from object mode, to iframe:
http://xenforo.com/help/bb-code-media-sites/
Liam Dawe Mar 1, 2012
Thanks for pointing this out, i have remove the fs bit from the urls in the embed code it uses for youtube, let me know if that fixes it :) (may only work for videos posted from now on btw not sure).

Edit > I'm an idiot, didn't even realise the embed code was currently telling it to use flash, will take a look at iframe then.

Edit 2 > Now using iframe code, let me know how it works.
whizse Mar 1, 2012
Wohoo, video everywhere! :cool:

Thanks for fixing this!
Liam Dawe Mar 1, 2012
No problem it's what the feedback forum is here for :D
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