Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

On Monday the 3rd of March, around 5pm UTC (9am PT) users may experience a brief period of downtime while one of our underlying services is under maintenance.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

How to get HTML 5 videos to play on Youtube.com

  • 2 பதிலளிப்புகள்
  • 5 இந்த பிரச்னைகள் உள்ளது
  • 6 views
  • Last reply by Carm

I am trying to go without Flash and enjoy HTML5 video, but I am running across a strange problem.

Embedded YouTube videos play just fine in FF, but if I try to view the same one on the YouTube.com page, it asks me why I haven't installed flash yet.

Is there a setting to change to have FF ask YouTube to play in HTML5 no matter what?

I am trying to go without Flash and enjoy HTML5 video, but I am running across a strange problem. Embedded YouTube videos play just fine in FF, but if I try to view the same one on the YouTube.com page, it asks me why I haven't installed flash yet. Is there a setting to change to have FF ask YouTube to play in HTML5 no matter what?

All Replies (2)

As far as I know, it's not possible to get HTML5 video on all YouTube videos without an add-on (no, the dusty old HTML5 trial option doesn't help).

I use the following. Its settings are at the default, except for YouTube video loading method which I set to Player API (because the default stopped working).

Actually there is:

http://www.youtube.com/html5