YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by tatterdemalion on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @03:47PM (#8955730)

Hooray! I delete all cookies on session end and I don't have flash installed. Having to remember to go to youtube.com/html5 every time I start a new session has been frustrating.

Also, the HTML5 player has a nice feature to change the rate at which the video plays, which makes watching long talks a lot easier.

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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by dmunoz on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @03:56PM (#8955815)

I much prefer to have the option exposed in the UI, but you can do this with any HTML5 video element by setting the video element's playbackRate. Often, it's as easy as 'document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.5'. I have a bookmarklet that does exactly this, so I love to see HTML5 video being the default more and more.

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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by dublinben on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @09:31AM (#8959970)

You should use this add-on, called YouTube All HTML5. It just works.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-all-h...

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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by carlob on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:06AM (#8958676)

There are a bunch of extensions that could have forced all video to html5 for you.

ClickToPlugin is great IMO and it's kept me from switching away from safari for the longest time.

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