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, ...

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 ...

Some day, plug-ins will be a thing of the past. At his recent Streaming Media West presentation on how to build a streaming HTML5 video player, Jeff Tapper, chief architect with Digital Primates, ...

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 ...

The online music race is now an all-out sprint: Amazon, Google, and Apple are now all offering (or preparing to launch) services that let you upload your music collection to the cloud, letting you ...

Pandora, one of the biggest names in the music streaming business with 70 million active monthly users, has just rolled out a new player designed to play nicely with TVs and video game consoles. The ...

Twitch is moving closer and closer to HTML5 land and away from Flash land. Twitch has taken another step in redesigning the site's video player to be HTML5-based. The new player features controls ...

Vimeo launched an HTML5-based video playback site at the beginning of the year, but it is now enabling users to embed its videos with a new Universal Player that can detect the viewer's client and ...

Platforms Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform Platforms YouTube ...

BBC has not fully moved its iPlayer service over to HTML5 just yet but has announced that it is launching an opt-in beta program. Currently, iPlayer uses Adobe's Flash but plans to completely phase ...