MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NexStreaming announced today the release of NexPlayer HTML5, an HLS/DASH streaming player that enables the highest video quality across all browsers. From now on, premium ...

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, ...

Movie-rental service plans to switch its streaming over to the emerging video format as soon as three WC3 initiatives are complete. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked ...

If you're a Netflix subscriber and you use a Mac or PC for playback, then you may be aware that the service utilizes Microsoft's Silverlight plugin to bring you all that Breaking Bad and House of ...

Netflix said Wednesday that it is midway through a transition to HTML5 for its laptop streaming technology at the expense of Microsoft's Silverlight. The move, delivered, in Netflix's third quarter ...

Following its public unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Netflix on Tuesday officially invited beta users of OS X Yosemite to try out the streaming service's new plugin-free option ...

Here is one more nail in Flash’s coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the ...

A new HTML content protection proposal has met with criticism from developers at Google and Mozilla. A new HTML content protection proposal has met with criticism from developers at Google and Mozilla ...

Anyone encoding video for the web has likely wondered if they should devote all their energy to creating HTML5 files and leave Flash behind. As StreamingMedia.com writer Jan Ozer pointed out during ...

Netflix currently uses Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin to run its streams. It’s an inelegant solution that sometimes makes for subpar and bogged down streaming experiences. But Silverlight is possibly ...