Windows 10: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

Source: YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 <video>

 

Good news...Flash is just too buggy.

:)

 

Will Windows Phone 7 play You tube and flash videos?

WP7 internet explorer has full HTML5 support, and youtube runs on HTML5 so there is no problem to play youtube videos in browser. what i assume is that later in future HTML5 videos will be standard for web videos, more over adobe has stopped working on
FlashPlayer anymore, and there will be no more flash payer/plugin will be shipped to devices,

 

embedded video on windows phone 8.1 nokia

It's just weird sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. I posted that video from YouTube. Aren't they using html5 now?

 

About freaking time *Tongue
Without flash installed or simply disabled F5 would often need to be used *Wink

 

About time. More sites need to follow. Flashes time is pretty much done.

 

Lucky there are still ways to go around it. I use an extensions for youtube, which forces flash, since HTML5 is too heavy and lags too much Some people even run out of memory when playing 1hour+ long videos.

 

Here is the fix if html5 doesn't work when using youtube. I don't know if it will work for unsupported browsers but you can give it a try. There should be an option to request html5 player.

YouTube

 

Still use flash as HTML5 has way too many problems.. people can preach how unsecure flash is but there is still no worthy replacement at least for YouTube. I haven't tried HTML5 player recently because I use workaround to force flash, but is monitor still going to sleep when longer video is playing (I keep my pc always on so I set up my monitor to turn of after ~20min of inactivity) because HTML5 player somehow doesn't report activity as for example flash does.
HTML5 videos had many quality problems with more system load.
Has all these above problems been resolved?

Edit:
Just tested monitor still goes to sleep while playing YouTube video in HTML5 but its ok in Flash.

 

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You need increase you monitor sleep time in power management, me I choose 5 hours because I use the computer a lot. On the same page I linked to in my previous post, you can also turn off html5 in youtube for now.

 

5 hours is way to long. for example I use pc in evening and then go to sleep that means monitor will be on almost all night. Its really annoying especially if pc is in same room. I have to move mouse or press something from time to time when watching YouTube, this is crazy I want to keep flash player.

 

I have not had a reason to install flash yet on Windows 10 and hopefully it will stay that way.

And yes 5 hours for monitor to turn off is rather pointless. It should be around 15 minutes. That length of time should mean its not too bothersome.

 

I turn off my plug-in strip at night, which turns off the computer & router totally. It has saved me $10.00 on my electric bill. If I download at night, I do change the monitor to turn off after 15 minutes.