Vimeo is also for HTML5 and H.264

    vimeo.pngAs you already know , today YouTube began to test video using HTML5 tags in test mode. The developers of Vimeo.com have just written about the same solution . In order to watch the video without using Flash, on the video page you need to click on the link “Switch to HTML5 player”. While the player on HTML5 works with 75% of the video. For example, you can use it when watching a video about a coal-fired power plant located somewhere in Iowa - at the same time you will see how we pollute the environment.



    Like YouTube, Vimeo chose the H.264 codec rather than OGG Theora, so for now only Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer users with ChromeFrame can use the new feature (how to write: H.264 codec / standard / codec I did not understand, despite attempts to explain this in the comments to the topic about YouTube ).

    While the player on HTML5 has only one problem: the video cannot be expanded to full screen, and this is a limitation of the browsers themselves. Vimeo developers promise for the first time to add an interim solution: the video can be increased to the entire page of the browser.

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