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So awesome.

Presumably this doesn't yet allow streaming, including scrubbing / resolution & bitrate switching / etc, since Media Source Extensions / MPEG-DASH aren't supported in anything but Chrome?

MSE: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/...

MPEG-DASH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...

Apparently Firefox is getting close, which is heartening: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/08/20/progress-towards-media-s...

If anyone from Kickstarter is here, love to hear if you're starting to play with MSE support for supported browsers, or if you're just doing download-and-play. Congrats either way - so glad to see more of this.

It's just a good 'ol download-and-play. I don't expect we need streaming, but bitrate switching would be interesting.

I decided to uninstall flash on my work computer (pc win 7) a while ago.

I occasionally watch Youtube videos and it's getting better and better with time, I sometimes have to switch to chrome because some of the videos are not encoded for html5 but I would really recommend to ditch flash player and not be bothered by the constant updates anymore.

Ironically my browser blocked a plug-in on this page.

HTML5 Video First