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From: Ian McCall on 21 Jan 2010 15:28
On 2010-01-21 11:50:12 +0000, info(a)that.sundog.co.uk (SM) said:

> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-01-21, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>>> SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's a trial of HTML5 video here:
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.youtube.com/testtube>
>>>>
>>>> It's great to see video without the fan-spinning of Flash on Macs.
>>>
>>> Dont notice it being any faster, but if its not using flash I would hope
>>> it may be more reliable.
>>>
>>
>> Haven't had a chance to play with this yet. What's the cpu usage like in
>> comparison to Flash?
>
> Didn't check - it was just nice to see the video play without this
> MacBook's fans spinning up.

Worth noting that you lose full-screen though - I've gone back to Flash
just because of this reason.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Gordon on 22 Jan 2010 04:24
On Jan 21, 9:33 am, i...(a)that.sundog.co.uk (SM) wrote:
> There's a trial of HTML5 video here:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/testtube>
>
> It's great to see video without the fan-spinning of Flash on Macs.
>
> Stuart
> --
> cut that out to reply

It doesn't work in FireFox, because while the latest versions support
<video> they use an open source codec while Safari uses H.264 (or 263,
can't remember exactly which).

This highlights that until the W3C makes a particular codec mandatory
the <video> tag is just going to cause more problems than it solves.
This is a real shame as Flash is just really really bad.
From: David Kennedy on 22 Jan 2010 04:42
Gordon wrote:
> On Jan 21, 9:33 am, i...(a)that.sundog.co.uk (SM) wrote:
>> There's a trial of HTML5 video here:
>>
>> <http://www.youtube.com/testtube>
>>
>> It's great to see video without the fan-spinning of Flash on Macs.
>>
>> Stuart
>> --
>> cut that out to reply
>
> It doesn't work in FireFox, because while the latest versions support
> <video> they use an open source codec while Safari uses H.264 (or 263,
> can't remember exactly which).
>
> This highlights that until the W3C makes a particular codec mandatory
> the<video> tag is just going to cause more problems than it solves.
> This is a real shame as Flash is just really really bad.

Following the links on that page to

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hvzBofFfzA>

seems to work OK here with Firefox
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jan 2010 05:07
SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:

> There's a trial of HTML5 video here:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/testtube>
>
> It's great to see video without the fan-spinning of Flash on Macs.

<puzzled> Fan spinning? Is that a reference to the horribly
inefficient decoding process with Flash video?

Rowland.

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From: Jim on 22 Jan 2010 05:10
On 2010-01-22, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
> SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> There's a trial of HTML5 video here:
>>
>> <http://www.youtube.com/testtube>
>>
>> It's great to see video without the fan-spinning of Flash on Macs.
>
><puzzled> Fan spinning? Is that a reference to the horribly
> inefficient decoding process with Flash video?

It's a reference to the fact that Flash is very cpu-intensive.

Jim
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