Just discovered that YouTube HTML5 video playback can be improved dramatically if the Perian QuickTime plugin is uninstalled — it seems that Google is trying to be smart and deliver a WebM format to the browser rather than h264 in an MP4 container. Bit of a pain, I was wondering why the player was dropping frames all over the place, and being generally unresponsive to scrubbing/play/pause interactions.
Tag: h264
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Using HTML5 video tag to serve Baseline and Main profile h264 files
Michael Jones has a good tip for using the HTML5
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Using Compressor to make MP4 files with the h.264 video codec
Michael Jones explains how to get Compressor to encode h.264 into a .mp4 file with the help of a custom script and x264. This is useful for HTML 5 video with Google’s Chrome browser, and might also be good for Flash playback too… http://chealion.ca/2010/09/using-compressor-to-make-better-html5-video-draft/
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HTML5 and web video, IE team discussion
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/02/html5-and-web-video-questions-for-the-industry-from-the-community.aspx