This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

Learn from the best: at the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City, Steve Heffernan, creator of the widely used VideoJS player, explained how to build an HTML5 player from scratch.

The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

YouTube has just launched a new experimental HTML5 video player, which would replace their Flash player for supported videos. Flash has long been seen (with good ...

Vimeo has rebuilt its video player using HTML5, the latest version of the Web programming language that is challenging Adobe Systems’ Flash player in serving up Web video. The use of HTML5, which ...