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Video.js - HTML5 Video Player

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Id be interested in hearing how this compares to mediaelementjs

Hope this helps: http://html5video.org/wiki/HTML5_Player_Comparison

thank you very much for that. ME.js has keyboard controls, and this doesn't use jQuery. Considering this is less than a third of the size of mediaelement, once it gets keyboard controls, this seems like a clear champion.

Much lower CPU usage than the Flash equivalent on Linux (no real surprise). Extremely snappy performance. Great interface. Well done.

Very nice.

Some UI things: Clicking on the video pauses/resumes fine on HTML5, but not Flash. Pressing space doesn't pause/resume. I can't unmute in Flash by pressing the mute button. The mute button doesn't cause the volume slider to move in HTML5. Dragging the seek button doesn't go smoothly in Flash.

Looks awesome. One really minor nit (only bringing it up because it's odd / looks like there's a +1 floating around somewhere): In the HTML5 version (latest Safari, Mac OS X) there's a small black band to the left of the video that is NOT in the flash version. Guessing offhand looks like it's 2-3px.

That's great! Will be handy for lot of devs. Out of curiosity, what is the video that they play on their home page (fish, sharks and birds); it's fascinating.

The link under the video that says "video clip from" points to http://disney.go.com/disneynature/oceans/.

You convinced me when I turned on captions :-)

i've been using it for the past 2 months and it has random crashes i can't explain. the error messages are not helpful. i will probably be switching to mediaelement in a few days. i think mediaelement has a broader device support. if you look at the issues tab on html5js you see a lot of problems with ipad and other mobile devices.

Have you seen the new Flowplayer? http://flowplayer.org

Wow, this seems good. I've been using VideoJS for the last couple of months and the biggest problem with it is, that they do Classes, Events end everything themselves. The Components system is good though, but VideoJS needs some rewrite to use jQuery or Ender, or some libraries from microJS.com...

I get weird static and pixelation in fullscreen on Chrome -Ubuntu 12.04

The captions on the video are epic. Don't miss a watch with the CC on.

Has anyone managed to use this with any lightbox plugin/code?

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