There not videos, because a video is usually a windows play file. This is just a regular picture file. If I would post a "Video" right here it wouldnt play. Now this new type yes new it plays almost any where you put it.

 

YouTube "Videos" are done virtually the same way, just with player controls enabled. Sure the file that you upload maybe a .avi, .wmv or .mp4 but they are all then converted in to .flv files (This is why some videos take a while to appear, and even longer for higher quality) so that the .swf file of YouTubes player can play it.

 

So for all purposes that image could have been any file type that has just been converted to work with a .swf embeddable player, even though HTML5 players are becoming more popular.

 

In example you can see that the YouTube video is opening up a Shockware Flash player, and just a slight tweak to the flashvars section tells the player which video to load, the .swf file itself is just the player not the actual video.

 

<embed name="movie_player" id="movie_player" width="100%" height="100%" tabindex="0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflZKI7PB/watch_as3.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoplay=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;fexp=941257%2C936100%2C934223%2C938630%2C936910%2C936913%2C907231%2C907240%2C921090%2C3300011%2C3300118%2C3300130%2C3300137%2C3300161%2C3310366%2C3310598%2C3310870&amp;hl&amp;cr&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F&amp;playerapiid=player2">

Edited January 8, 201412 yr by Faracus

YouTube "Videos" are done virtually the same way, just with player controls enabled. Sure the file that you upload maybe a .avi, .wmv or .mp4 but they are all then converted in to .flv files (This is why some videos take a while to appear, and even longer for higher quality) so that the .swf file of YouTubes player can play it.

 

So for all purposes that image could have been any file type that has just been converted to work with a .swf embeddable player, even though HTML5 players are becoming more popular.

 

You can also use an HTML5 player on YouTube by opting in at http://www.youtube.com/html5 if your browser supports it.

You can also use an HTML5 player on YouTube by opting in at http://www.youtube.com/html5 if your browser supports it.

 

Yes, but again it still follows the same encoding to a .flv, just because thats how YouTube runs, but HTML5 players will run other file types.

Yes, but again it still follows the same encoding to a .flv, just because thats how YouTube runs, but HTML5 players will run other file types.

 

I didn't realize that it still played the flv encoded videos. I guess it would make sense not to have two copies of every video just so the HTML5 player can play something other than an flv.

I didn't realize that it still played the flv encoded videos. I guess it would make sense not to have two copies of every video just so the HTML5 player can play something other than an flv.

 

<video class="video-stream html5-main-video" x-webkit-airplay="allow" data-youtube-id="Baa_7p9HWR8" src="blob:http%3A//www.youtube.com/8066815a-e6f6-4ef4-b70d-1c09353a7e2d" style="width: 854px; height: 480px; left: 0px; top: 0px; -webkit-transform: none;"></video>

 

So HTML5 is a lot more messy to sift through as all the style information and everything has to be included in the pages code unlike the shockwave player where it's already been pre-coded, but after some digging I have found the line of code that loads the specific video. (the source address is not directly the video)

 

Also in HTML5's video player the controls and video player are separate.

 

As a correction to my previous post YouTube does not conver to .flv (I do believe that this use to be the standard, but now everything is encoded H.264 (MPEG 4 (.mp4)), even if you upload in a .mp4 your video still undergoes encoding, to their more specific standards (frame rate, and that stuff) but it's a quicker encoding time.

<video class="video-stream html5-main-video" x-webkit-airplay="allow" data-youtube-id="Baa_7p9HWR8" src="blob:http%3A//www.youtube.com/8066815a-e6f6-4ef4-b70d-1c09353a7e2d" style="width: 854px; height: 480px; left: 0px; top: 0px; -webkit-transform: none;"></video>

So HTML5 is a lot more messy to sift through as all the style information and everything has to be included in the pages code unlike the shockwave player where it's already been pre-coded, but after some digging I have found the line of code that loads the specific video. (the source address is not directly the video)

 

Also in HTML5's video player the controls and video player are separate.

 

As a correction to my previous post YouTube does not conver to .flv (I do believe that this use to be the standard, but now everything is encoded H.264 (MPEG 4 (.mp4)), even if you upload in a .mp4 your video still undergoes encoding, to their more specific standards (frame rate, and that stuff) but it's a quicker encoding time.

 

 

Ah. It's quite interesting to see the differences between the HTML5 player and the flash player.

 

Yeah, I seem to remember last time I uploaded a video H.264 was the encoding they recommended.