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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by lucaspiller on Saturday January 03, 2015 @02:00AM (#8830131)
Not sure why this is being down voted, but it seems pretty fair to me. DRM is the reason why YouTube still uses Flash as the main player, the same for Netflix with Silverlight.

Given Twitter will mainly be doing this from a commercial angle, I can't see them being any different - if anything their technical might will lead to stronger DRM technologies.

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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by rtpg on Saturday January 03, 2015 @02:47AM (#8830196)
DRM is not the reason youtube uses flash, browser support and feature usage. HTML5 video APIs are still frustrating to use compared to flash's pretty well built-out mechanisms.
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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by eleusive on Saturday January 03, 2015 @06:34AM (#8830522)
Advertisers also love to serve video ads on a flash platform because it lets them perform custom analytics, logic, etc.
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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by psykovsky on Saturday January 03, 2015 @08:01AM (#8830655)
And don't forget the part where flash is a backdoor to users computers. It can bypass proxies and give them your real IP, and I'm not sure even google will want that to go away.
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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by warfangle on Saturday January 03, 2015 @12:56PM (#8831405)
> YouTube still uses Flash as the main player

That's odd; I just loaded up a YouTube video and it's the HTML5 player. Maybe I have it enabled in settings somewhere; huh, nope, in incognito mode it's still HTML5.

Must be a chrome thing - in Firefox it's flash. Probably something to do with the codecs available in Firefox HTML5.

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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by detaro on Saturday January 03, 2015 @08:19AM (#8830680)
What kind of DRM? I haven't come across a YouTube video where it fell back to Flash in ages.
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Re:Details Unveiled for Twitter’s Native Video Player to Riv... by 7952 on Saturday January 03, 2015 @09:21AM (#8830767)
No They don't need flash to do DRM. Chrome has the widevine plugin that adds DRM to html5.
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