YouTube trialling HTML5 videos - try it!

[Second Summer]

As you may be aware, Flash video is on its way out (across the Internet, not just YouTube) and will be replaced by HTML5 video.

If you have a supported browser, you can join the YouTube's trial of HTML5 videos at the link below. Then all the videos you watch will be displayed using HTML5. (Well, I think the vast majority of them at least.)

http://www.youtube.com/html5

It seems to be working well so far for me, I've gone through a couple of my playlists without any problems.

 

[Second Summer]

Hm, looks like it will still use the Flash player for many videos. (You can tell which player is used by right-clicking on the video.) Still a worthwhile exercise though!

 

[Snowcone]

Trying it right now. Even in html5 Pharaoh Man don't give a ****.

 

[beanstew]

I've been in the trial for a while. For the most part it works well. I still have Flash enabled in the browser profile I upload to youtube with as it sometimes takes a while for a video to be ready in HTML5 especially at 720p or above and I like to give a video a watch after an upload to make sure everything is working properly. I've had Flash disabled in all my other browser profiles for ages and haven't missed it a bit.

 

[Second Summer]

Looks like quite a lot of the youtube vids are now available in HTML5 format. I don't have Flash video in this browser, but lately I've only come across a couple of vids not available in HTML5.