The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it ...

Jilion, the makers of the cloud-based HTML5 video player SublimeVideo, are today making the product more accessible through the introduction of a freemium offering. When the service launched earlier ...

This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

Amazon is becoming the latest company to start moving beyond Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to adopt native HTML5 web video. The company said today that it has begun to roll out a new HTML5 web ...

YouTube on Wednesday announced that the popular video-sharing Website will now support HTML5 for video playback. HTML5, for the uninitiated, is an in-development Web standard that aims to add various ...

In my own testing, the HTML5 player loads a bit faster than the Flash version. Thankfully, it doesn’t run into any annoying rebuffering issues as you jump around the video, a common problem with Vimeo ...