HTML5 YouTube Video

Question

How to play YouTube video in HTML5?

Answer 1

This is probably what you are looking for: Customize youtube HTML5 video

HTML5 video can be played if the user selects:

<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID" frameborder="0"> </iframe> 

HTML5-by-defualt video - pay attention to ?html5=1 :

 <iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID?html5=1" frameborder="0"> </iframe> 

The "HTML5" way to make a video will use the <video> . This post shows that this can be done , but this does not seem to be the best option. Show Youtube video source in HTML5 tag?

Answer 2

You can also see how YouTube does this, select: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Answer 3

If you use safari, there is a YouTube5 extension that will make all YouTube videos in html5 video.

http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/06/09/youtube5-html5-converter-for-youtube-videos/

Supports videos that are not on YouTube (video with ads, etc.)

Answer 4

You can easily embed a video by right-clicking on YouTube, copying the embedded video option and pasting it into your html wherever you want it to appear. The problem with this is that you will not control what is shown in the embed code, except for the clip of interest, i.e. advertises playlists, etc. / p>

Answer 5

http://html5demos.com/video#view-source - an example of using html5 to play videos.