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Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player

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That is fantastic news. I hope Youtube is not far behind.

Vimeo has always been one of my favourite video sites. If they would allow "gaming" videos I would use them for hosting too.

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If comment flagging was possible I would have flagged this post (edit: for being spammy).

edit: Below comment is not why I would flag a comment, not sure why one would think so.

Paying for video hosting is something I would never consider. Archive.org hosts mine now.

You would flag a post because you're cheap? That seems really unnecessary.

No, I would flag it because it was blatant promotional spam of someone pitching their product.

It was a pitch, but it wasn't spam. He was just telling you that he had something similar to what you were looking for. People talk about their products here all the time. Heck, Patrick McKenzie's posts about his product are some of the most popular in HN history. Talking about startups is one of the stated purposes of Hacker News. Surely you've noticed this in all the time you've been a member.

Youtube started testing this about a month ago: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-...

Slightly off topic but I really hate how youtube tests stuff. I'm sure theres some rhyme or reason to it but from the end-user's perspective it just seems random. Example: I really like the "lower lights" feature on hulu which darkens the page background around the video. I remember for several months I would come across a button to do the same thing on youtube but it would only show up maybe 5% of the time. I can see no reason why that feature would be dependent on the video itself because it has to be just a simple CSS/JS trick.

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Sweet! I hope this will be just as fruitful as Scribd's transition to HTML5. iPad naysayers, whaddaya say ye now? Ha!

It seems like it is about time Vimeo did this although right now there is no indication that they actually have. The RRW story doesn't link to anything that has the announcement from them and there is nothing on the Vimeo site about it either.

Why is it "about time"? You make it sound like Vimeo is years behind the pack, but in fact---if my understanding is correct---they are at the front, at least in regards to other big video hosting such as Youtube.

I agree they aren't that far behind but it is frustrating that they have taken a while to do it. The reason I say frustrating is because I use Google reader on an iPhone/iPad and if the feed includes a Youtube video it gets pulled in as html5. Youtube has had support for html5 video for a while now. Hopefully this change by Vimeo will be reflected in Google reader now as well.

I haven't used Google Reader on an iPad/iPhone but I think it's unlikely YouTube is using HTML5 there. Mobile Safari actually has a built in parser for YouTube embed code, so nearly any YT embed will work even thought it's clearly an <embed> tag right to a SWF. Normally Mobile Safari will completely ignore *.swf URLs.

So in some sense we're just now getting feature parity, in another we're ahead.

Disclosure: I work for Vimeo.

It looks like I wasn't remembering the Youtube announcement correctly. I was thinking of this:

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/05/little-bit-of-polis...

I believe that just says they are letting video and audio tags through. When those are in the feed the ipad can play the video inline in reader. A little testing seems to show that they are also letting their iframe embed through as well and when you use that you do get the html5 version of the player on the ipad and iphone. It looks like the Vimeo iframe embed isn't allowed to pass though but hopefully they will allow it. I put together a demo feed that shows the difference if anyone is interested: http://serveany.s3.amazonaws.com/soclose.atom

Interesting, thanks!

Youtube has a custom player built into the iPhone/Pad - it's not standard HTML5 afaik, though they are experimenting with HTML5 embeds (see my comment above for link to the GOOG blog w/ deets).

It's live now: http://vimeo.com/blog:334

Now will someone get Charlie Rose a damn Vimeo account so I can watch him on my iPad?

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