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HTML5 Video and Stuff!
FEB
26
2010
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I've been playing with the delights of HTML5, and added videos to hopefully replace Flash. Not that I had a problem with Flash, but YouTube/Google are doing it, so that means everyone else has to because they're obviously correct - Google wins at the internet.
But the immediate advantages are the performance and quality, and it just feels nicer that it's embedded better into the page, although it has broken W3C complicances... for now.
The problem is that not all browsers support HTML5 - yes, you again, Internet Explorer. I hate you so much and never miss an opportunity to tell everyone how irritating you are. But even then, the browsers that do support HTML5 don't all support the same filetypes. Webkit (Chrome/Safari) play nice MP4/M4V file types, which means they play well on the iPhone and support an image to display that invites you to click to play.
Screenshot of the iPhone version of my site displaying the graphic that predictably leads to the video when tapped.
Firefox has done an IE and done things differently by not supporting MP4/M4V, and supporting OGG/OGV instead. The quality of the Firefox video is slightly inferior since I've had to put the video through two lots of compression (AVI > M4V > OGG), but hopefully in a future update Firefox will support MP4s so everything can be uniform. Or a good OGG converter appears - my attempts at finding one have resulted in me discovering SUPER, which does a good enough job at the actual converting, but takes far longer to start up than it does to convert. And I have to put an M4V through rather than the original AVI, because it adds a random green bar to the bottom of AVIs. Incidentally, I'm using Handbrake for the M4Vs.
The videos then fall back to Flash in Internet Explorer (playing the MP4 file rather than FLV to save another convert and upload). I doubt IE will support HTML5 this decade, so I guess Flash will be around a while yet. Not that that's a bad thing - Flash is great. But not so good for video, even though it has been the standard for so long.
I plan on creating a custom interface for the videos but for now I've allowed the default browser interface to be displayed, with a simple 'play' graphic over the top.
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