Opera made friends with HTML5 video on YouTube (EPIC FAIL)

Good day, Habrasoobschestvo.

In fact, the essence of this text easily fits in the title. But there is a second side - for the sake of which, in fact, it was decided not to limit the title. The essence of it is simple - in the greatest, liveliest and most pleasant degree the news affects users of netbooks .


Regularly in articles and comments, they express the idea that almost a year should pass to mass HTML5. Discusses the inappropriateness of the use of HTML5 in projects aimed at corporate users - the old versions of browsers are not going to give up their positions.
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Against the background of all this, sly snapping up and breaking news about the new version of FFMPEG, about the beta version of Opera number 10.60 with support for video in the WebM container, about using this WebM service YouTube ... Stop, stop! Do you fully understand the significance of these "ordinary" events?

For those who are not quite up to date, I will give a short copy-paste from Wikipedia:

A special tag has been added to the fifth version of the HTML language to display the video. As a standard, it was proposed to use free software: Theora video codec, Vorbis audio codec and Ogg media container. However, some market players were unhappy with Theora’s quality and lack of hardware acceleration for it, so the reference to specific standards was removed from the HTML5 specification in 2007 ... As a result, two “competing” HTML5 video implementations appeared:
Theora / Vorbis / Ogg (supported by Mozilla, Opera and the Wikimedia Foundation) and
H.264 / AAC / MPEG-4 (supported by Apple, Google and Microsoft).

To end the “format war”, Google bought On2 (a developer of VP3, the predecessor of Theora, and a new, better-quality video codec VP8). On Google I / O 2010, the VP8 code was opened under a license similar to BSD and presented a set of video / audio codecs and media containers under the common name “WebM” ... Microsoft, Skype, AMD, nVidia, ARM, Broadcom already stated support for the codec. , Digital Rapids, Freescale, Imagination, Logitech, Marvel, MIPS, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Veri Silicon, ViewCast.

What does this mean for me and the millions of netbook users on Atom processors? The era of invincible brakes flash video is over, it is time for high-quality and non-resource-intensive HTML5 video. Yes, the video tag is only a small part of the HTML5 innovations. Yes, full support for all the features of the "fifth" version of the example of real sites, we will not see soon. But at least in this part, the new standard stands firmly on its feet, relying on the “trendsetter” - the YouTube service. And there is a reasonably hope that the share of “old” flash-video on the network in the near future will steadily fall.

The author claims that he is a stupid idiot and has mislead everyone, having taken the wishful thing for himself. But seriously ...

Explain to me, idiot - why on YouTube there are 3 different players in the Opera? The one on which the WebM and HTML5 inscriptions proudly flaunt — in fact, it slows down , there is no video caching in it and maybe even something else is bad in it — I didn’t look, I was upset and turned off. There is the same, but without inscriptions - I mistaken it for WebM, there is a pleasant smoothness of work. And there is an old, fleshovy, it slows down and you will not confuse the interface with anything. The question is - in the second case, what video format is used?

All-all-all, I'm sorry, and I hurt myself, and I gave false hopes to others. All participants in the discussion plus karma as compensation. And yes, it was not easy decision to write it here.