Friday, April 09, 2010

YouTube Beta Enhancements

"Feather" Beta


This is an opt-in beta for "Feather" support on YouTube. The "Feather" project is intended to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser. It is a work in progress and may not work for all videos.


Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we're working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes.


http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta


YouTube HTML5 Video Player

This is an opt-in experiment for HTML5 support on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most videos. Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we're working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes.


Supported Browsers

Right now we support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and the h.264 video codec. These include:

  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari (version 4+)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)


Updates!

  • 1/27/2010: Fullscreen support enabled (if supported by browser).


Additional Restrictions (we are working on these!)

  • Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)
  • Fullscreen is not supported
  • If you've opted in to other testtube experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player (Feather is supported, though)




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