YouTube site more "Amiga-friendly" now!!!

During the last few days, YouTube has undergone a drastical improvement in overall use and got some additional support like a music library, better HD-support
and no longer any demand for flash-support!

This opens up for better possibilities for all Amiga browsers to display YouTube videos in any quality WITHOUT the need of flash support! Very much appreciated, making YouTube more "Amiga-friendly"! I am sure they know about the forthcoming 25th Amiga Celebrity for the summer, the
forthcoming new AmigaOne X1000 platform and that
AmigaOS 4 is still heavily under development!

So enjoy your videos and start making more, as they
will be fair easy now to display in any Amiga setup!!!

I want to give the people behind YouTube a GREAT thank!!!

Banana-party, anyone?

@Helgis

At OSNews.com I read that YouTube is planning to use HTML5 video instead of Adobe flash.

http://www.osnews.com/story/22744/Goo ... _Video_Version_of_YouTube

HTML5 video is supported by Firefox and Safari, it will be probably supported by Timberwolf...

So if HTML5 support becomes a reality for YouTube, that will be really good for us :)

And

Joerg says if GStreamer (http://www.gstreamer.net/) is ported to AmigaOS4, OWB can support HTML5 video,too...

@Sinan

Excellent news, meaning that the HTML 5 is the new standard, which should be much better. It's cool to
see these new features in YouTube..

@All

Let me know how YouTube videos perform on your
Amiga setup, people.

@Sinan

Check YouTube with your OWB, and if you downloaded the alpha versions of TimberWolf, i am sure the "new" YouTube will give you a great surprise.

@Helgis

nothing changed for me running Update 1 and the latest OWB...will wait for TimberWolf I guess
btw, what's this about a Timberwolf release !@#@?..what, where, when

@Helgis

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Of course they do, infact thats the reason why they made one of the worlds biggest websites more friendly....because of AOS

Well would be interesting to know somethings about the performance, actually a slow PC would be enough to watch YouTube's video (non HQ)

But what about HTML 5.0 video ?

@samo79

Flash is so CPU hungry, HTML5 can't be worse

@Elwood

Yes let's hope it will be better.
I always asked myself why flash/video became so popular. Sometimes youtube video stutters on a quad core 3.0 GHz machine even if the video is fully loaded, crazy!

@Amigo1

You can test HTML5 version of Youtube from

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Chrome and Safari on PC supports HTML5 Video..

@Helgis

Why is it that the main youtube page does not load all the thumbnail pics????

OWB 3.23

@samo79

well...how much slow pc???
A P3 at 933MHz wasnt enough to play youtube standard video smoothly...
So unfortunately probably no AmigaOne/SAM can do it with gnash for example...
Maybe HTML5 was less heavy?
In that case maybe we have a possibility...

Any one know that?

@All

Interesting feedback. Things will be better, don't worry.

@Sinan

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thx I'll try that

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get "browser does'nt support html5 video" using latest OWB....

@Helgis

No parties here really, the only browsers that support the version of HTML5 video that youtube is currently using (h.264) is Safari and Chrome, Firefox wont help because they only support Ogg.

Presumably if OWB were set-up to use h.264 as well (as previously mentioned if gstreamer gets integrated) then OWB would work, but not before then.

Mark

@Mark

How about avcodec.library? current Amiga version dont support it, but the latest yes...maybe porting that was an easyer task?

@Tuxedo

I have a Pentium III 800 Mhz with a crap GFX, I can say that Flash video runs pretty decently here, off course they run in low quality but 100% visible

I can't say the same using HTML5 videos (using Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7):-/