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Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by rustyconover on Saturday December 06, 2014 @10:54PM (#8711179)
I doubt this highly. And if they are moving to DASH it is implemented by Flash.
Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by hayksaakian on Saturday December 06, 2014 @11:22PM (#8711234)
the recent "steam broadcasting" (live video game streams served via steam's service)

uses DASH and is works with pure HTML5 (no flash needed)

Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by shmerl on Sunday December 07, 2014 @04:30AM (#8711742)
In order for DASH to work you need Media Source Extensions support. Firefox for example doesn't support them yet.
Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by mcovey on Sunday December 07, 2014 @08:55AM (#8712153)
They're hidden behind an about:config flag - media.mediasource.enabled

The latest version of developer edition/aurora just enabled them by default, so version 36. They may be only ~12 weeks away from becoming default in the stable build.

Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by shmerl on Sunday December 07, 2014 @01:47PM (#8713101)
Thanks, I didn't know that setting already made it into the stable build. Now I can watch Youtube in high resolution (and in VP9 with that!) without using Flash. Why is it still disabled though, there are some bugs left?

UPDATE: some remaining issues are listed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617

Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by rustyconover on Sunday December 07, 2014 @12:15AM (#8711320)
Not in safari or iOS
Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by JohnTHaller on Sunday December 07, 2014 @12:53AM (#8711389)
According to Steam it works in the Steam Client, Google Chrome, and Safari: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6730-TOA...

If they just say 'Safari', it probably doesn't work on iOS at the moment. But it should work on your Mac unless an extension/addon is interfering.

Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by lern_too_spel on Sunday December 07, 2014 @12:53AM (#8711388)
Safari on Mac now supports MSE, on which there are multiple DASH implementations. Safari on iOS is behind, but it's not hard to guess where it's going.