HTML 5 video is the here and now of online video and is the default of how video is delivered via the web, but is currently not supported on older browsers in, particular version Internet Explorer 8 and earlier, you still have to provide an alternative format for those older browsers and undoubtedly that will be Flash as a fall back method (other alternatives are QuickTime and Silverlight, but Flash is more widespread and easily deployed solution). You need to support and embrace HTML 5 because you can’t play Flash video on Apple’s iOS devices and that isn’t going to change anytime soon. Video also needs to scale to support a myriad of devices, so responsive techniques are now required to allow you to serve 1 video file to a number of devices. Each video player discussed here has links to specific pages for that player and how to set it up and also tweak them to use for responsive design and layout. HTML5 Video Solutions Set Ups & Guides.
Compare the installed Flash Player version with the latest version of Flash Player for your Mac OS version. • If the version numbers match, you have the latest version of Flash Player. Don’t reinstall Flash Player. Continue to the next solution. • If the version of Flash Player on your computer is not the latest version, quit your browser. Dec 7, 2018 - Learn how to stream video from VLC on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS to Chromecast for playing on smart TV here.
YouTube & Vimeo One of the easiest and free methods to deliver HTML5 video with flash fallback is to host the video on free services like YouTube and Vimeo, all you really need to care about is inserting the embed code onto your page and you are good to go. These services will look after when to deliver the video as HTML5 and when to deliver as Flash you just don’t have to think about it. Here is a couple of guides of getting both and videos set up and also responsively scaling them in all browsers and iOS devices. Sublime-video-generator What Is good about this creator code is that you only need to pass in an mp4, so in Firefox, Chrome and Opera the video is delivered via Flash, so you only have to work with 1 format.
You can get your video code with a lightbox functionality pre-built which the other solutions can’t do without custom code. Wistia is another slick solution, sign up for free and get 3 videos hosted and 5GB of bandwith, after that there is a pricing scale, you upload your videos to the site and get an iframe code in return.
It will detect and play flash format and mp4 on tablet/mobile. Nice and easy. Video for Everybody Generator The ‘‘ or VFE is the business, it is both a html and flash all in one generator. Plug your details in, choose your preferred Flash Player and grab the code. What is even better that in the code is a download link to the video files as the ultimate fall back if the user didn’t have HTML5 or Flash capabilities.
Video-for-everybody-code-generator The only issue here is that you need to supply a WebM or OGG source to satisfy Firefox/Opera HTML 5 browers otherwise nothing will load. Also there is no player skin, by default each browser default skin displayes, which are all different. What you can do here is take advantage of the code generator and then combine it with Video JS to get the unified skin and controls!
Example So there is plenty on the table here and it really depends on what your needs and preference ends up being, Sublime is very cool but you have less control and it will start to cost for more flexibility, VideoJS I think is the better solution and is very robust, but keep your eyes open for more functions like lightboxes and carousels.