Youtube – What advantages and disadvantages are there to using the HTML5 beta of YouTube

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Google has a beta of YouTube that uses HTML5's video tag, but what gains do I get from using this, other than not having to install Flash just for YouTube?

Best Answer

Four points that make HTML5 not so hot for YouTube:

  • Cannot point to a particular point in a video with the #t=21m0s portions
  • Cannot watch content protected videos
  • Full Screen Support (currently does full browser screen)
  • Recording directly to YouTube with a webcam
  • On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTML5 (found this one on HTML5 beta page)

Advantages are written by every blogger out there, mainly less memory hogging and browser/mobile compatibility.

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