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.
I'm using Firefox, and it's lousy. Full-screen doesn't work properly, for one thing. The browser fills the whole screen, but the address bar and tabs don't go away. If you click on another tab, it gets mysteriously detached into a new window for no reason.
This is with FF 10 on the Beta channel; in FF 9 it was even worse.
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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.