(Note: Mobile browsers typically do not allow a video clip to start automatically without the viewer interacting with the user interface. As such, test any playlist functionality you’re building on ...

Flash might not be disappearing overnight, but there's no denying that HTML5 is gaining momentum every day, particularly when it comes to web video. YouTube and Vimeo ...

Nuanti, a company that develops Web browsing technologies, has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plugin. Nuanti’s Highgate Media Suite will enable ...

Here is one more nail in Flash’s coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the ...

The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

Sometimes, good things start out a little sketchy. HTML5 video, for example, has more than its share of rough edges. In his presentation on building an HTML5 video player at the recent HTML5 Video ...

The five characters HTML5 are now an established buzzword, found everywhere on the Web and often given top billing in slides, feature lists, and other places where terms du jour congregate.

A site called Vid.ly this week is debuting its answer to the emerging battle between Google, Microsoft and others over the future of HTML5 video standards. Vid.ly represents an end run around the ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

MPEG LA, the firm that controls licensing for a number of video and other standards, announced on Thursday that it will never charge any royalties for Internet video encoded using the H.264 standard ...

With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction. But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia, it ...

Flash and HTML5 are hot topics in the online world right now. We've heard plenty about how more smartphones will get Flash, how performance might not be what users expect and how mainstream sites are ...