When you try to play a youtube video the iPhone launches the "youTube
player" which takes over. Under the hood, flash is just displaying
youtube's mpeg4 video files which the iphone can handle just fine. So I
suspect the YouTube player is just a simple wrapper around the native
quicktime video player and youtube puts something special in the video
URL to tell the browser to hand off to the helper app. Sort of how
things were done before plugins.
CB
Brent Harding wrote:
So, since the IPhone doesn't support Flash, how can they use Youtube?
It must be encoded in something else.
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*From:* Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>
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*Subject:* Re: Apple, Adobe and Flash
I guess I'll have to try making my own html5 video page and hit it
from an iphone to find out if it really can or can't do it.
Youtube and Vimeo seem to still have logic in place that assumes
they need to shunt you to a helper app when playing video in
Safari on an iPhone.
At this point there really is nothing you can do in Flash that you
can't do in HTML/JS/CSS short of direct access to the local host
resources like disk storage, video cameras and such. I've heard
they are working on the video input bit.
CB
Chris Hofstader wrote:
I think that the HTML5 on YouTube is still a beta so the strange
behaviors regarding bouncing you around from program to program
is probably temporary.
I feel like I've been fighting with Adobe for a million years. I
think HTML5 is our next and maybe last great hope to kill a
proprietary system with open standards and, almost automatically,
find it supported on the OS of our choice with the access
technology we enjoy.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Apple made it's own Youtube player which launches. I assume this
player uses the native video hardware decoder rather than
software to play back the video. Note that even if you opt-in
for HTML5 video you still get shunted to the youtube player.
Vimeo bumps you to the QuickTime player. I didn't even know
there was a QT player on the iPhone.
CB
Chris Hofstader wrote:
Just curious, what software is running when you view a YouTube video on the
iPhone? I assumed it had to be some variety of Flash.
On Jan 28, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Interesting read about the lack of love between Apple and Adobe in relation
to Flash and why you'll never see flash on the ipod/iphone/ipad.
http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash
CB
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