“It comes from Mefeedia, a media search website that indexes video from a wide variety of sources — from CBS and ABC to YouTube and Hulu, some 30,000 sources in all,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Not all video is created equal. As Steve Jobs explained in his seminal Thoughts on Flash open letter, “YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.”
Elmer-DeWitt continues, explaining that according to the latest Mefeedia survey, “Most sites that support HTML5 will detect iPad users and switch to an HTML5-compatible format. News stories are a mixed bag. New ones are mostly available in HTML-5, but most of the older content has note yet been re-encoded.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Lately, we’ve noticed that YouTube video that we embed in our pages — video that has always been Flash-only — is now detecting iPhone/iPod touch/iPad users and delivering HTML5 video. Well done, Google!
Adobe, What part of Never don’ you get?
I use Flash every day, but I still say DIE, FLV, DIE!!! It can’t happen fast enough, in my opinion.
Flash should die, if for no other reason than the fact that Adobe has always put out a shitty Mac plug-in and chose to not allocate the resources to fix it.
Fah Q!!!
The only problem with this is that most people are not looking at the BIG commercial sites for video content, with YouTube being the exception. Penetration into the Big sites is a start, but the majority of flash based video is located on medium visited sites. There is no penetration there, hence a problem still persists.
How does a video explode? You mean like on Mission Impossible?
MadMac, no the “exploding” video is an HTML5 effect. The shards continue to play video as they scatter across the page…
“It has begun”.
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Okay now dynamic slide shows please.
I’ve noticed it. The New York Times, NHL.com and a few others I frequent have more Flash-free video.
Let’s see what the landscape looks like in 6 months!
@Snapper…
Java works fine for that.
The slides shows I made for my web site with Freeway Pro 5 (MooTools Suite plug-ins) all look great on my iPad.
Adobe said let the people choose, and they are choosing.
Before the iPhone and ipad, 90% of all web users were “locked in” to proprietary and poor desktop experience. Open source webkit and license free Html5 has set people free and open their eyes.
Jobs to Adobe: “Let my people go”.
What hulu video is iPad compatible? So far all they’ve done is say it’s too much trouble to go to HTML 5 for the foreseeable future.
Never mind. I mis-read the quote.
@MadMac, you ask how video explodes? This is how video explodes in HTML5
http://craftymind.com/factory/html5video/CanvasVideo.html
@ etr
That’s one crafty bunny!
Can we please include Silverlight in any dissing of Flash? I went to watch a sporting event online and I was hit by the site’s “Needs Silverlight” message.
iPad doesn’t support flash videos original.
When a video is tried to play in iPad it changes to .MP4 format automatically .
In the while, many videos should converted direct from the original. So, someone may need this prfessional program called iFunia iPad Video Converter.
http://www.ifunia.com/video-converter-mac.html
Has anyone else had the new Steam client crash whenever it plays flash videos of game demos?
Great headline for an Amish porn article.
What is the best way to stream h.264 content in HTML5/Video (other than using Youtube), such that the client doesn’t download the whole video ahead of time? It’s not a content protection issue; but we’re a small shop and don’t want users downloading a 200 MB video file all at once, sucking up all our available bandwidth in the process.
One of the best outcomes: the metrics show the ad people just how many iPad/ iPhones were turned away – never to come back, comes from of one of the worst aspects of the google age: the deep deep knowledge of where you have been and what you have seen.
you can download videos with your computer and then transfer them onto iPad.
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/extreme-brite-white-review-where-to-buy-1964003.html
You guys do realize that Flash can be just a wrapper round H264 anyway, don’t you? So HTML5 and Flash delivery of HD content both boil down to decoding H.264? e.g. TED talks does just this, and switches between Flash and HTML5 as the wrapper depending on whether it detects an iPhone/iPad or not.
Yep that is now really very interesting in ipod,
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/cho-yung-tea-review-where-to-buy-cho-yung-tea-2203061.html
Ok, a poll:
When will 90% of websites be without flash?
I guess one year from now. Am I too optimistic?
MDN-Word: trouble…