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, ...

Sometimes, good things start out a little sketchy. HTML5 video, for example, has more than its share of rough edges. In his presentation on building an HTML5 video player at the recent HTML5 Video ...

Users of Chrome and Internet Explorer 11, and current beta users of Firefox, have one less reason to use Flash as YouTube begins to serve up its HTML5 player by default. For some time, YouTube has ...

YouTube is rolling out, or at least widely testing, a new video player design for its web experience that feels much different. YouTube has looked, in many ways, roughly the same for a long time. That ...

YouTube has begun rolling out a redesigned video player interface for its web platform. The new video UI features clearer pill-shaped controls, but users say they can no longer scroll on the volume ...

Some Android users report seeing a new video player UI in the YouTube app. YouTube’s latest player UI relocates a lot of buttons and shows more information about the video. It also adds a gesture that ...