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 tracey pooh |
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January 25, 2012 11:58:43am |
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movies
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Re: new video/audio player 'opt in' is live! |
ok, i can reproduce *some* of that.
playing audio, when in "html5" mode on android (the default for most audio with our new player) does insert a [video] tag -- which causes playback to open the .mp4 style player and make a black screen and play the audio. so i will see if we can make that be an audio tag not video...
meanwhile, there is a new "I prefer flash" link at the bottom of the new player. if you click that, the behaviour is nearly identical to the old player -- it sends you a flash-plugin audio playing experience and the performance/experience here was the same in old player (flash) vs. new player (flash).
can't reproduce the "spining for HUGE amounts of time" here. I'm hoping that you just got unlucky w/ an item on a slow server (ie: not player related).
"Even if you do manage to get out of the browser the new player no longer plays in the background."
...neither does the old player.
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Poster:
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pegz |
Date:
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January 25, 2012 06:11:53pm |
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Forum:
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movies
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Re: new video/audio player 'opt in' is live! |
Er, the old player does work in the background, in fact it's doing it now as I type this!
I noticed the increased load time whilst I was updating a lot of embeds to the new player. Every time, if I embedded the same file in both formats on the same page, the new embed was far slower to load. One of the drawbacks of using iframes.
Also, when it comes to keeping everybody's sites running smoothly, I'd question the wisdom of switching to iframes anyway. A lot of blogging, forum, and 'make your own website'sites don't allow iframes
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Poster:
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tracey pooh |
Date:
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January 31, 2012 07:31:12pm |
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Forum:
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movies
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Re: new video/audio player 'opt in' is live! |
hi again,
yes, for browsers that *can* support a direct flash object/embed tag, the iframe method will be a bit slower these days in comparison.
but it's not entirely for flash-vs-html5 -- we are doing a *lot* more under the hood to:
- properly identify the files of an item (eg: if an item changes or file renames -- you're often toast w/ flash direct files named)
- find any captioning information -- over time, we plan to add "Universal Subtitles", which means multi-lingual tracks may appear over time and the new /embed/ codes will "just work"
- allow playlists
but yah, i notice it on my own site/blog -- adding a bunch of /embed/ permalinks is a bit more "expensive". but we're hoping their permanency over
time and their flexibility and auto-updating will more than make up for it.
many of the other embed media sites have opted for iframes as well, and we are taking our lead from what we believe to be the industry standard.
may not be "news to you" or super convincing/great for you to hear, but there are some of the thoughts in a post, at least!
-tracey
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