Comments on: YouTube5 Update – HTML5 Anywhere

By: connectionfailure

connectionfailure — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:22:49 +0000

I have a similar problem to Nx-cold. The video autoplays invisibly, so I can hear it. Then another copy loads and I hear everything twice HELP ME!!

By: A.J. Bautista

A.J. Bautista — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:26:55 +0000

I suspect that this extension will not work if you've joined YouTube's official HTML5 Beta.

I installed the extension on Safari 5 for Mac OS X 10.6, and it worked great - until I joined YouTube's beta, at which point Safari stopped loading any YouTube videos. Instead, it would try loading Flash video, but would never load anything.

Once I disabled the YouTube5 extension (but remained a YouTube HTML beta tester), HTML5 on YouTube worked once again!

So it's either the Connor's extension or YouTube's official beta. I've chosen the latter.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:55:55 +0000

Hi Connor, awesome extension! It is so nice not having to use flash for youtube, esp. on my MacBook.

A question though, since 1.2.5 sometimes I won’t get video controls on a few videos.

An example http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/cxtp4/tilhowshipsarelaunched/

Press the “Play-like” button beneath TIL to have it shown in the page. This video does not give me any video controls.

Thanks, Alexander

By: byron

byron — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:48:44 +0000

aweseomawesomeawesome! thanks so much!

By: Connor

Connor — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:54:48 +0000

I have just released an update to version 1.2.5 which fixes the issues everyone has been encountering with the changed video URL. Sorry the update took a while!

By: mamamama

mamamama — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:57:59 +0000

It’s true, the extension doesn’t works since few days ago.

By: Levi Figueira

Levi Figueira — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:03:55 +0000

I second Jorge. Something got borked in the last few days

By: addicted

addicted — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:31:50 +0000

@Connor - I am facing the same issue as Philippe. The player loads, but all I see is the spinning progress indicator in the middle of a black rectangle (and the controls at the bottom).

I would also note that the Safari extension that adds a "Download Video" button to Youtube pages is also broken, so it seems like Youtube has changed something that is messing with Safari extensions.

By: David

David — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:21:28 +0000

Youtube must’ve changed something cause this extension is broken. But another extension (not as good, no quality selector) FlashToHtml5 works fine.

By: byron

byron — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:39:20 +0000

like jorge said, the extension doesn’t work at all now — probably because youtube changed something