html5=1 without effect

[dittaeva]

I am not quite sure what it is html5=1 does, but from you've written about it one can make Youtube embeds use the html5 player by using it. I'd expect it to effect the main Youtube site as well though.

However, upon trying different embeds and Youtube itself, the html5 video player does not seem to be active, also upon inspecting youtube.com/html5, so it seems to me that html5=1 as it is now has no effect. Which is too bad because it should be an improvement over using Flash.

[kaihendry]

Hmmm, I can confirm the issue. http://stackoverflow.com/a/23490805/4534

Youtube need to be chased up here, so I can correct http://webconverger.org/blog/2014/Webconverger_26_release/

Thanks for reporting!

[kaihendry]

@mkaply do you know when Firefox will be supported by Youtube without Flash?

[kaihendry]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=mse I'm told is there relevant Youtube related bug. html5=1 is a broken Youtube thing.

[mkaply]

Yeah, it looks like youtube turned html5 off temporarily?

[kaihendry]

I am waiting for Youtube to not invoke Flash by default. I think it's a bit hacky to force it like that in https://github.com/Webconverger/webconverger-addon/pull/53

This bug should be assigned to Youtube somehow !!