Youtube<video> with HTML5! On Google Chrome beta

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#1

If you follow the instructions on how to install google chrome. You can enjoy flashless video playback after visiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
will*(If you can’t handle drawn cleavage, don’t click it)*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjaYy-Tg-ww)

I’d say this is the beginning of the end of flash! (and I for one wont miss it)

#2

You’re just titillating us, aren’t you? lol!

Works fine in my Chrome, now if only I could get network audio working to my thin client.

#3

Axeia wrote:

>
> If you follow the ’ instructions on how to install google chrome’
> (http://moosy.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-chrome-on-
opensuse-112.html).
> You can enjoy flashless video playback after visiting
> ‘youtube.com/html5’ (http://www.youtube.com/html5). Just click the
> link at the bottom and find yourself a video!
>
> Not all videos can be played as HTML5 yet but they will fall back on
> flash if they can’t. Firefox can’t play it because youtube is using
> h264 which seems to be incompatible with the license Firefox is
> released under. Chromium for some reason doesn’t support it either,
> so you really need to install Google Chrome.
>
> Here is a video that will play using the <video> tag in Google
> Chrome:
> -(If you can’t handle drawn cleavage, don’t click it)-
> ‘YouTube - Colorful funniest’
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjaYy-Tg-ww)
>
> I’d say this is the beginning of the end of flash! (and I for one
> wont miss it)
>
> - If you’re looking for a place to test your Firefox’s <video>
> support, try ‘openvideo.dailymotion.com’
> (http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/). On a sidenote, as another
> confirmation <video> is making its way ’ Vimeo is joining in on the
> html5 fun’ (http://www.vimeo.com/blog:268).-
>
Worked fine in my google chrome. Even sound worked on first click.

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#4

Not going to install that Google junk just for that :sick:

#5

Yup, you don’t need Chrome to watch the cleavage video. :stuck_out_tongue:

(It’s boring anyway.)

#6

Cleavage? Boring?

Blasphemer!!!

#7

I have to admit. I haven’t watched the video yet though. Keep that in mind before we burn Ken at the stake.

#8

Well you’re not forced to watch that particular vid, quite a few videos have been converted already and I would assume the % will only go up if google/youtube (same thing) is serious about this.

You may have better luck with videos that aren’t very popular though… browsing through my favs I noticed flash is used for videos that are doing well (30.000+ views) mostly. The not so popular ones (<30.000) often do use the <video> tag.

#9

Just installed 64-bit google chrome, 64-bit flash works and everything, but this HTML5 is just completely amazing. A lot of the music I listen to has videos that html5 will work with. Looking at my system monitor my cpu only goes up to about 20% now instead of the 50-70% with flash. Currently listening to a song and it’s at 14%.

Thanks for spreading the word! :slight_smile:

Take Care,

Ian

#10

Edit: I got a little too excited. I just restarted my computer and after having a clean startup there’s actually no difference in the cpu usage between flash and html5. At least on the quad core. Will test further on the laptop when I have time.

Take Care,

Ian

#11

Here is another set of benchmarks for graphics using HTML5:

FreecivBenchmarkResults - freeciv-forever - Benchmarking Freeciv.net for improved performance. - Project Hosting on Google Code

I hope this spurs FF to improve their JS engine, which is where Chrome and Safari get their speed from. IE is simply out of the race for this benchmark.

#12

They’re working on buffing up the javascript performance for Firefox 3.6. It’s still behind both Safari and Google Chrome though.

  • Fun fact, even Arora outperforms IE8 (although miles behind Firefox and even further behind Chrome/Safari)*