

More importantly, HTML5 video is an open technology based on web standards which are developed by industry bodies. HTML5 video is also more resource-friendly than Flash, which tends to send your notebook’s fan into overdrive when browsing YouTube. And because browser plug-ins typically open new attack vectors, using HTML5 for video increases your security. There are many benefit to using HTML5 over Flash for online video.įor starters, HTML5 delivers web video without a plug-in whereas Adobe Flash requires a browser plug-in (by the way, the Flash player is baked into Google’s desktop Chrome browser). “Other content providers like Netflix and Vimeo, as well as companies like Microsoft and Apple have embraced HTML5 and been key contributors to its success,” YouTube said in a statement. It was a time of the prevalence of Flash and web developers had only begun experimenting with HTML5 for online video delivery, but boy what a difference a few years make.Īs reported by VentureBeat, YouTube announced today that it’s ditched Flash for HTML5 video by default. This lets web developers focus on their main goal, developing the website rather than overcoming quirks of web video playback compatibility.When Steve Jobs was challenged on the iPad’s lack of support for Adobe’s Flash runtime for web video, manifested at the time as black rectangles on websites in place of Flash video, he said that “those holes are getting plugged real fast”. The HTML player UI is built using jQueryUI, packaged from the Widget Browser, and then customized and integrated into your website using Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor of your choice.
#ADOBE HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER DOWNLOAD#
Download it through the the Adobe Dreamweaver Widget Browser. It’s a light-weight Flash & HTML5 hybrid solution for video playback across different browsers and devices. Today, the Adobe Web Frameworks team is introducing a new HTML5 Video Player Widget built on a subset of the Kaltura library.

To take away this headache (and a few others), we came up with the Kaltura HTML5 Media Library – which includes an open source, cross browser, cross device, “fallback” player.

And further, most mobile devices don’t support the freshly not-yet-fully-spec’d standard. Alas, whenever HTML5 is presented as the “standard-compliant-preferred” solution for doing cross-device video playback it raises many eyebrows, and rightfully so – some claim that HTML5 isn’t ready yet for production websites. The main reason why HTML5 is raised in every session or workshop on web video lately is due to mobile devices that don’t support Adobe Flash (*cough* iOS). Introducing HTML5 Video Player Widget on the Adobe Dreamweaver Widget Browser | Kaltura Developer Blog.Īnnounced today, Adobe HTML5 Video Player Widget, based on the Kaltura HTML5 Media Library.
