Curiously this player causes more CPU load than a flash video here on chrome/OSX. Must be something specific to this implementation, though. The html5 player on youtube causes less load than flash.
Safari in OS X made my CPU fan really start to kick up some noise, and it was still pretty choppy on my beefy MBP - the full screen transition was too.
It's not terribly relevant to HTML5, but I wracked my brain over trying to figure out what song plays in the video and how I know it.
After listening to a bunch of tracks and going through my music collection, I found it. It's a re-orchestration of Bond's "Oceanic" (Bond, the string quartet). I'm not sure if their version is original, or if that's a remake of something else (they do like to do updated dancy versions of classics like the 1812 Overture).
If anyone's interested anyway, it was bugging me like crazy.
Awesome, Thank you. I'll have to look into it. I heard that piece once before but I wasn't particularly enamored with it (though it's probably been 12 years since I first and last heard it). I'll have to give it another shot, I'm a big fan of many of Saint-Saens' other big works.
Thank you. It was bugging me as well, which is funny because I rarely listen to these and don't usually "index" them... But this one really sticks in your head!
It's not the original Bond Oceanic, but definitely similar. However I've heard the same exact re-orchestration before, still dying to know where though.
While this is nicely presented, I'm not really seeing what it adds, especially for something that's not open source and they intend to charge for.
Surely the point of HTML5 video is to have these controls built into the browser so they work with accessibility, and your custom key combos, and your touch control webpad etc. And the non-control bits are just CSS.
Okay it looks better than the default Chrome player, but really that's not very hard. Seems a step back for Safari though.
I think it's quite unfair to promote a piece of software with such a surreal video and comforting soundtrack. All of my attention was drawn to the video instead of looking for more info. There doesn't seem to be any relevant information for developers in links on the site or a faq.
Question: How exactly does this work? Is the player code (video decompressing etc.) part of the browser code or does it utilize players on my desktop (divx or even vlc)? It seems that html5-video is codec-independent. But the codecs have to be somewhere, right?
They do state that they intend to support Firefox for the final release.
And I think in general, letting average folk see something half finished and probably broken will totally prejudice their opinions of the final product. Irrational, but true.
Good point: Could you use the Sublime HTML/JS set for other codecs? Probably could -- the codec would make less of a difference to transport control functionality than the browser's varying support for JavaScript and VIDEO APIs would be.
