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, ...

Vimeo has made its embedded video player compatible with more devices with a new version that can serve up either an Adobe Flash-based player or an HTML5 video player on the fly. Josh Lowensohn joined ...

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 ...

The HTML5 version of YouTube’s video player has been seeing steady improvements lately and is rapidly approaching feature parity with the Flash version, according ...

Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it ...

YouTube has offered HTML5 functionality for many years now, so it seems overdue for the company to finally make this the standard platform. You can read the full details of YouTube’s HTML5 benefits ...

Now that Chrome and Firefox are treating Flash like an unwanted guest, online companies are weighing up whether supporting the browser plugin is worth their time. The BBC currently utilises it for its ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Video sharing site Vimeo has taken the HTML5 plunge one step further with a brand new "universal" embeddable ...

Streamroot's Erica Beavers looks at the inner workings and UI elements of prominent HTML5 players such as Brightcove, Ooyala, JWPlayer, and Bitdash, and how they differ from their Flash predecessors, ...

This is why we can't have nice things. Spotify's web player has been rolling out to more users since its closed beta launch late last year, but today an extension popped up in the Google Chrome store ...