[YouTube-API] Re: Is YT iFrame a native VIDEO tag in HTML5 ?

Hi Jeff,

This is one of those cases where I am perfectly illustrating how one
needs to know 80% of the subject matter in order to be able to frame
intelligent questions about the other 20% - so let me try one more
time ;)

So, when one has properly opted in and where html4 videos are being
streamed, there are some cases where specific videos could be streamed
in flash? So, in that "mixed" environment where some videos are
<video> and some are _flash_ do flash videos "mascarade" as html5
video. In other words, did YT build a wrapper that somehow makes the
flash video appear to be html5 video - at least from the javascript
perspective? In other words, is it possible to write javascript code
in such a way so that it's talking to the iframe player via html video
tag, regardless of which of the two versions the iframe palyer is
streaming at any one time?

Thanks again.

On Dec 28, 12:04 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello Zdravko,
>
>  The current default format for <iframe> embeds is Flash video. Flash
> might not always been the default for all browsers, but it is for now.
>
>  If you've opted in to the HTML5 trial athttp://www.youtube.com/html5
> and your browser has that opt-in cookie active (i.e. you're not
> running in an incognito session or on a different browser) then you
> should see HTML5 <video> by default, assuming there are no ads-related
> restrictions that would require Flash.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> @YouTubeDev
>
> On Dec 27, 4:57 pm, zdravko <email.workbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks Jeff
>
> > My Chrome browser scores 344 + 13 bonus points out of 450 on this
> > HTML5 testhttp://html5test.com/(:whatever that means :) so I am
> > confused as to why popcorn.js youtube demo i using flash.  My thought
> > was that I read that something to do with advertising, YT may choose
> > to use flash even if they could have used HTML5 video.  So, it is
> > within that querky scenario why I asked if in those cases flash player
> > is pretending to be HTML5 video so that it can be controlled through
> > video tag "api".  In that case, is the video tag api not in effect a
> > wrapper around the yt api.  Thanks again for helping me to better
> > formulate my question.

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