You may have noticed there is a debate raging over the use of Flash or HTML5 for video delivery. Youtube announced a prototype HTML5 player and other companies are alsio dabbling with the technology. However Youtube engineers although positive about the HTML5 player, seem to still favor Flash according to a company blog post.

It said:- “While HTML5′s video support enables us to bring most of the content and features of YouTube to computers and other devices that don’t support Flash Player, it does not yet meet all of our needs,” said YouTube software engineer John Harding in the post. “Today, Adobe Flash provides the best platform for YouTube’s video distribution requirements.”

So they are in effect telling the world that HTML5 is still lacking in many features that are required for video presentation. While the mighty Flash seems to have everything needed. John Harding said:- “We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does — there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video.”

More HTML5 negative points were discussed including the lack of a single video format standard. “Users upload 24 hours of video every minute to YouTube, so it’s important to minimize the number of video formats we support,” he said. At present, the company encodes uploaded videos in H.264, which is not supported by all Web browsers. Flash, which can run in all browsers, supports H.264

YouTube also needs finer controls for video playback, features that will become increasingly important as the service moves into offering video of live events and full-length commercial movies. One is the ability to adjust buffering rates. Another feature missing is content protection. HTML5 and the browsers also lack the ability to play back video in full screen mode, which is offered Flash (as well as Flash competitor Silverlight, which is used by Netflix) .

Flash also provides additional capabilities that will serve YouTube in the future, such as the ability to securely embed content on another site and the ability to support two way video chatting for anyone with a cam.

This whole furore over which player to use seems to have begun after Apple decided to continue no support of Flash on it’s new iplayer flat screen pc. Although Apple’s reluctance is down to a buggy performance and battery useage, many claim that Apple just want to protect revenue.  This has led to a war of players with CBS deciding to use HTML5 on it’s Ipad TV player.

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