HTML5 vs Flash

[grahamarmfield]

In the documentation for the player I'm led to believe that wherever possible the player will instantiate itself as HTML5 and only revert to Flash when the browser does not support HTML5.

However I'm beginning to suspect that actually that is not the case and that the Flash version of the player is being delivered everywhere. I'm suspicious as I've implemented the player on a couple of sites and I'm seeing flash in every browser. Additionally my client has tested one site on a new iPad and the video is not showing - with the message 'requires Macromedia Flash Player...'

I would have expected a new iPad running Safari to entertain the HTML5. I'm also running latest versions of Chrome and Firefox and flash is showing on them - whereas I would have thought that HTML5 would work on them.

Is there something else that needs to be set somewhere to enable the HTML5 first?

Hi Graham, as per the documentation the player only loads HTML5 first when using the JWPlayer. When using a video from YouTube or other source it will load as Flash.

Since the web has moved away from Flash and HTML5 has become the default, we are looking at rolling out HTML5 as the default for other sources but sadly this this is a little way off and it is not without its own problems and limitations to overcome.

[stefanruijsenaars]

Hi, is HTML5 support for Youtube still in the works (through the iframe API)?

[Vacilando]

If the detection does not work yet, is there a way to force HTML5 — at least when including YouTube?