This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

On the important quality metric of rebuffering ratio, the HTML5 player is trending at par or better than our Flash player. The HTML5 player excels over the Flash player when it comes to the video ...

Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don’t. It’s cross-browser and cross-platform ...

Video site Vimeo will begin rolling out support Thursday for HTML5 with a new player that runs natively in current generation browsers.

Vimeo has made its embedded video player compatible with more devices with a new version that can serve up either an Adobe Flash-based player or an HTML5 video player on the fly. Josh Lowensohn joined ...

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Streaming media provider StreamGuys launched an HTML5 player that it says solves metadata challenges and offers other benefits to broadcasters and streamers. It says its multiplatform approach ensures ...

Don't hate the pLayer The battle between HTML5 and Flash to be the dominant means for video playback on the Web is nothing less than epic.

The online music race is now an all-out sprint: Amazon, Google, and Apple are now all offering (or preparing to launch) services that let you upload your music collection to the cloud, letting you ...

The HTML5 version of YouTube’s video player has seen steady improvements and is rapidly approaching feature parity with the Flash version.

Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don’t. It’s cross-browser and cross-platform ...