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by not_an_alien 5855 days ago
Fullscreen video plays like shit in latest stable Firefox, video has no sound.

Playback is ok in latest Chrome, fullscreen is in-window, so no real fullscreen.

And people say HTML5 is the future now? I just hope those players that have a 'fall-back' to Flash allow you to set the Flash version as the default one.

How do I disable HTML5?

2 comments

> Fullscreen video plays like shit in latest stable Firefox, video has no sound. I'm pretty sure that it's a known issue.

> Playback is ok in latest Chrome, fullscreen is in-window, so no real fullscreen. Webkit has implemented a fullscreen api, and it's being added to the latest dev chromium.

> And people say HTML5 is the future now? I just hope those players that have a 'fall-back' to Flash allow you to set the Flash version as the default one. > How do I disable HTML5?

Alright, why don't you develop a cross compatible, open standard that has agreement from Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, and Opera? Why don't you just whip out a fresh new coded, that supports: playback, streaming media, multiple bit-rates, text overlays (captions), accessibility (for screen readers), multiple langauge apis (captions, text overlays), and without patents or copyrights over the codec.

The "HTML5 video sucks" argument is bull, HTML5 is still a developmental specification, it's NOT a standard. Being that it's still in development assuming that it will work flawlessly would be like assuming some beta (or alpha) level product would work without bugs. Give HTML5 until the end of the year (2010) and then see where the progress is.

> Playback is ok in latest Chrome, fullscreen is in-window, so no real fullscreen.

Hit F11 and you'll get real fullscreen. Fullscreen api for html5 video is in the work, they are aware of the issue.