YouTube the popular video sharing site from Google has recently launched the trial of running videos using HTML5. HTML5 is the latest markup language which was revised in 2012 by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It supports all the latest multimedia and devices.
So, if you are a YouTube user and want to participate in the trial and testing of HTML5 video you need to have a compatible browser for that. The browsers that are supported in this trial are following:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE9 onwards, For IE 6/7/8 you need to install Google Chrome Frame)
- Firefox (4 onwards)
- Opera (10.6 onwards)
- Apple Safari
If you have a compatible browser, you can go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and click on Request the HTML5 player button. This will enable all your videos on YouTube to be run using HTML5 format.
The HTML5 video gives you options to run your video on slow motion or fast motion. For this you need to go to Settings and select Speed from (0.25, 0.5, Normal, 1.5 and 2). Selecting 0.25 will make video to run in slow motion and selecting 1.5 or 2 will run it in fast mode.
If you face any issue playing your video in HTML5 format you can right click on the video and select "Report Playback issue" and provide your feedback to Google YouTube team. To switch back to your default player you can go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and click on
Use the default player button.
