Vimeo HTML5-only Not working

[matyus]

Not 100% on this, but 95%.

I can't find a single Vimeo video that plays without flash enabled. This basically makes all vimeo videos useless on the iPad.

It could be that Vimeo doesn't have many HTML5 supported videos OR Our video player isn't configured correctly, because it's outdated or something (there aren't errors, the networks tab shows that it's not even trying to grab video... so it looks like something is wrong with the player itself.)

[spinosa]

we're using SWF: see vimeo_video_player.video.view.js#_bootstrapPlayer

[matyus]

@spinosa so we should feel free to update when we're able to right?

I assume that when the video player was originally built, the HTML5 player wasn't ready for production? Or is there a reason why shouldn't use the HTML5 player

[spinosa]

if we can use their html5 player, we should

[spinosa]

looks like we could use their html5 player now: http://developer.vimeo.com/player/js-api

what is the priority of this @matyus ? Assuming we need to upgrade the player before we can reasonably launch mobile shelby?

[spinosa]

Turns out their HTML5 Universal Embed is not quite as nice as their normal embed (you can't load videos based on id, you have to tear down and re-create the embed for each new video). I have this working and will stage it to see if we notice a deterimental performance difference.

[spinosa]

They responded to me: their Universal Embed will eventually support loadVideo

I will update the player when it does

[matyus]

that sucks. "eventually"... they're only hurting themselves!

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Dan Spinosa notifications@github.comwrote:

They responded to me: their Universal Embed will eventually support loadVideo

I will update the player when it does

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ShelbyTV/shelby-gt-web/issues/724#issuecomment-13293590.

Michael Matyus

DOM Wizard, Shelby.tv

matyus.shelby.tv

[spinosa]

live