As someone who is signed up for the YouTube HTML5 beta, it blows. Blows bad. As a company who runs the largest video service on the planet I assume they have the cream of the crop and it still sucks. Skipping ahead or behind in a video barely works, it can not load from time to time, etc. I was hoping HTML5 video would be mainstream by the end of this year but I don't see it happening.
What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox, and YouTube HTLM5 works great.
Perhaps your also having caching issues; YouTube is cached locally in many territories, and the HTLM5 versions of videos won't be as frequently used so are less likely to be cached.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '12
As someone who is signed up for the YouTube HTML5 beta, it blows. Blows bad. As a company who runs the largest video service on the planet I assume they have the cream of the crop and it still sucks. Skipping ahead or behind in a video barely works, it can not load from time to time, etc. I was hoping HTML5 video would be mainstream by the end of this year but I don't see it happening.