“Jilion, a team of application and user interface developers and designers based in Switzerland, has released SublimeVideo, an HTML5 video player that works in Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame installed),” FairerPlatform reports.
Current features (in the demo):
• HTML5 video goodness: no browser plugin, no Flash dependencies
• Jump anywhere in the video and it’ll start buffering from that point
• Custom styled controls
• Sleek zoom-in/out transitions
• Live-resizing (when resizing the browser window)
• More advanced controls on a draggable pane
• Press spacebar to play/pause video (doesn’t always work in Flash)
• Full-screen mode by alt (option)-clicking on the full-window button (WebKit nightly builds only)
FairerPlatform reports, “Thereupon, Jilion plans to add Firefox support, volume controls and ‘full’ IE support (fall back to Flash). Final code for SublimeVideo will be soon released for free (non-commercial use).”
Full article here.
More info about the SublimeVideo HTML5 player here.
MacDailyNews Note: The video demo works beautifully on our iPhone 3GS models and jumping around within the video’s timeline works perfectly.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacRadDoc” for the heads up.]
Cool. I like a future without Flash. Just need to get IE to support it natively and it’s a go.
Cool. I like a future without Flash. Just need to get IE to support it natively and it’s a go.
No MadMac, We just need IE to die!
Excellent! A Flash-free future is coming on fast!
Does anyone use it yet?
Totally unrelated: I love that there’s a kindle ad on this page…oh, and it’s flash.
@ Beaker.
Dude, it’s an ad. Look it up on Google, MDN does not pick and choose the adds individually.
The demo video looks gorgeous.
If this is an indication of the video quality then the coming Flash-Free Future will be bright!
Anyone else getting major hick-ups on YouTube html5 beta?
I’m on C2D 2.4 MBP
Where are the unicorns in the demo video. I feel like I was in narnia or lord of the rings.
Forget IE development. Just do the rest. Flash need to go bye bye as soon as possible.
Now THAT is why Apple is telling Adobe to shove it up their ass.
Die Flash. Die.
Video playback not working on my Safari 4.0.4 for Windows. It just slows Safari down to a crawl until I have to kill it with task manager. Trying the latest Windows Webkit to see if it works better.
This might also explain why Sling and EyeTV have been allowed to be accessed via 3G. Since browsers will be able to play this much video content, and floodgates are opening, might as well let everyone in on the party.
Flash = Fail
I love Flash! Really sucks it’s not supported. HTML 5 can’t do what flash can do, or can it?
Hmm…doesn’t want to play the video back in safari browser on the iPhone..anyone else try?
I didnt realize it would work on my iPhone 3G. Awesome! No problems whatsoever. The framerate was smooth.
Oh, and scrubbing on the timeline was instantaneous.
Macdude
It went to the Quicktime player on mine.
played back super sexy on my iPhone 3g.
i don’t understand how it works as a player. a player for end users or site developers?
Question though… in my iPhone the video opens up the iPhone media player and it does not play directly on the website in Safari, is there a way to do this?
Can someone enlighten me, please?
In what format/codec do video files need to be, in order to be displayed in a website?
I would love to see a Flash-free future, although I’m afraid that’s several years away at least.
Will SublimeVideo only work on HTML5 files?
Doesn’t work on my iPhone 3Gs.
Took some minutes to start for some reason but when it did it was sensational, especially in full screen. The death of flash does indeed seem nigh.
Lots of stuttering in Leopard Safari.