I'm thinking not all videos will be viewable with this player. Older and Newer FLV based videos will still be played using Flash, right? (This has nothing to do with browsers)

I love it! I can't wait for an embeddable version. I hope you make it easy to include the flash version as a fall back in the embed code as well.

Any chance .vp8 will be used instead of .h264 at some point, thanks for adding html5 by the way :)

Wow, it works so well!! Any way i can make the html5 player the default player experience on the site for my account?

Tried Safari 4 and Chrome 4.0.249.49 on Snow Leopard, I can't see any video here with html5. However, same setup works for youtube html5. Whats going on?

what about an HTML 5 embedded player... I've got a ton of videos that use the embedded vimeo player on my site. Have another 30+ to upload next week. Built a nice faqs section on my site with video and Q&As but the embedded vimeo videos won't play on android or iphone. Thinking about migrating to youtube because I am tired of waiting for mobile support from vimeo. It make more sense for me to change my code now and take the youtube plunge... :-((((((((((

Since converting old movies might be unfeasible. What about using Theora for new uploaded videos?

Or at least keep the Theora version as a choice when someone uploads videos in this format already.

I would really really love to see HTML5 as an option for embedding. Or maybe an embedding system that is smart enough to detect the browser being used and load a player based on that.

The more Flash I can remove from my day the happier I am.

Why no fullscreen? It rather defeats the purpose in moving away from flash when it can only be viewed in such a small format. YouTube has no problem with HTML5 full screen so its not browser dependent as I have seen vimeo claiming.

I'm glad you guys decided to try this. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and Google Chrome 4.0.249 and all of the standard definition videos work great, I only have problems when watching HD videos. Great job guys.

I must admit, while I think it is a good idea to use the html5 tag instead of Adobe's Flash technology, I am absolutely sure that h264 is the wrong choice.
Not only are Chrome and Safari currently the only browsers which support that while Firefox is much more widespread and provides very good OGG Theora support, but there will also be hefty licencing costs for h264 after Dec 31.
I really hope that Vimeo will go the better way - which means choosing OGG Theora over yet another proprietary technology.
Right now, for example Dailymotion is using Theora ( openvideo.dailymotion.com ) and I think they are doing pretty well.

So I really hope very much that you will also offer OGG Theora in the near future.

Where is the button to switch over to the html5 player...? Can't seem to find it.

thanks Director Douglas

Any chance for a 1080p option for the 4-to-8-core+reasonably-diehard-videocardvolks here? Since Youtube has it, I think Vimeo shouldn't be runnin behind. I rather have my video's posted here than youtube

Thanks for providing the new service and the link to the issues around HTML 5. Regarding the latter, does this mean after Dec. 31, 2010 vimeo will be charging us when we upload H.264 files? I'm a bit confused here.

Just an idea but wouldn't it be possible to encode the High Def-videos in ogg theora, that way all the major modern browsers could view those with the video tag, and then encode the lower resolution in h264 to ensure that mobile devices, and the likes, will be able to play them?

I just loaded the Google Chrome browser on my pc yesterday to check out the new HTML5 player. I noticed several things that don't work properly. The bottom 1 1/2 inches of the player screen shimmers all the time (playing HD videos). If I switch back to the Flash Player, none of my controls work anymore. Neither will clicking on the full screen icon. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Addition: I have been playing with this and found that I can make the Flash Player controls work if I do the following:
1. Click on the Full Screen Icon and then after the video begins to play, double click somewhere on the screen. This will place the video in full screen mode.
2. The only way the controls will work is in this Full Screen Mode. If you hit the Esc key and exit Full Screen Mode the player controls will not work, they will only work in the full screen mode if you switch between the HTML Player and the Flash Player.

I'm having color issues with some of my videos.

The color on the flash player is perfect, looks like it does in FCP. The html player oversaturates the color in the frame. It looks not great.

Can someone check on this? vimeo.com/8664805

One more vote for OGG Theora support in Firefox.

That said, I do understand why it's not a huge priority at the moment. Like Andrew said, we can see 100% of videos on 100% of PCs right now (with the right combination of browsers and plugins) - why waste processing power for a few angstey Firefox users.

I just think going with a proprietary format is a dangerous road to be taking when a perfectly good open source format is available.

I don't want Webkit to be the next IE6, with core website features built around a particular browser... I actually think this could lead to a worse situation than IE6, since it's not just corporate intranets relying on browser-specific features, it's big sites that we all use.

There's a good article up here:
sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/01/25/the-dark-side-of-html-5-video/

I don't know much about Firefox add-ons, but is H.264 support something that could possibly be achieved with an plugin in the meantime?

HTML5, HTML5!

May I ask what the likelihood is of a future HTML5 Hubnut, or something similar, for embedding collections of videos on external sites, sans Flash?

Looks like the problem with the HTML5 player controls have been fixed. They work now! The problem with the bottom of the screen shimmering STILL REMAINS!!!. Whatever was done to fix the controls...Thanks! Everything looks great now except for the bottom of the screen shimmering.

Would someone from the STAFF please comment on this.

Thanks!

I would also add a request to enlarge the video like the Youtube HTML5 player does. There is high def video, so please make the quality visible!

.OGG encoding for the second biggest Web Browser... Firefox

Please

firefox should support a bigger codec video format like mp4/h264

Hi,
I tried looking at some of my videos with the HTML5 player but they do not play the same way as some of the videos from others who have posted here. I am especially interested in being able to click on the progress bar and jump to a place on the video that has not loaded yet. I can do that with others with the new player, but not mine. Are there special parameters for uploads that will work with HTML5? Thank you.

can't seem to see the html5 elements with Safari 4.04. Any suggestions?

Please! Html5 !!!

Dirac please :)

I have a suggestion: I've noticed that despite a users download preference on a video, in HTML5 "mode" a video can still be downloaded by right-clicking and hitting Save As... I can imagine content owners being discouraged about this workaround.

Perhaps adding something to "turn off" HTML5 mode on certain videors, or turning off HTML5 for videos that have "do not allow downloading" enabled, until something enabling a little copy protection is rolled out.

I'm using Chrome 5.0 dev on OSX. I tested out your HTML5 player and noticed a bug when trying to leave a comment on a video.

It's seems impossible to put spaces in the comment box. Each stroke on the spacebar would instead Play/Pause the video above.

I thought i'd let you guys know in case you are not aware of this already. Keep up the good work !

I'm in Chrome 5.0.307.9 on OSX and spacebar doesn't Play/Pause the video. Thought I'd mention it.

I've found that the HTML5 player appears to default to mini-mode, i.e. play button only, for a video with a wide aspect ratio. I tend to like the 2.35/2.40:1 ratio because I'm just that pretentious, but I'd kinda like to have player controls too for my pretentious widescreen videos. Can anything be done?

In a related note, it would be cool if Vimeo's layout one day resembled more how a cinema worked, with wider aspect ratios making for larger videos. I wish TVs worked like this.

Would you add Opera to the supported browser please?

Hello,

comparing my videos from html to flash, there is a significant difference in quality: html looks so much worse, especially if there is text in the video.
Why is that? Will it be equal soon?

Thanks!

Loving the HTML5 player! How did you manage to put "like" and "embed" buttons etc? That's cool.

The only thing I don't like about your HTLM5 player is fullscreen is not really fullscreen. I realize that is not your fault, but it makes me think Flash should be default and HTML5 used only if that fails (or by user preference).

And of course, embedding would ROCK.

I still feel the "like" icon should change more visibly after liking so I don't unlike things that I really like.

Hmm I wonder where to enable the HTML5 player ? why make the tryout so hard ? I'm using the latest chrome browser (beta 5) and there is still flash :/

Any new on embedded HTML5 player option?

I'd like to see an embeddable html5 video player as well, I believe this is a must-have option for future compatibility.

Please bring embedded HTML5! We'd like to have our videos viewable on our website on mobile Safari.

I agree embedded HTML5 is a must, and while your at it overlay a dark transparency under the fullscreen html5, gets very busy with the website still fully visible around it.
Would be nice to if the video centered on the page with scale of as well.

Hey Vimoe what happened to the awesome fullscreen mode in safari? Was able to use yesterday and now it's back to silly full-window-mode?? Please please please bring it back

Update: Installed the Fullscreen Youtube extension to Safari, it messes with the Vimeo implementation. Even switching off extensions doesn't work. You have to disable the youtube extension entirely.

Update II: Ok, this is new territory :) The fullscreen extension works fine. You just have to let the Vimeo video buffer a bit before switching to fullscreen.

Get the youtube extension here:
cyberhq.nl/2010/06/08/restore-full-screen-playback-in-youtubes-html5-player.html

This is such a minor thing, but on fullscreen, I would love to see your vimeo looking buttons, like on flash fullscreen. I don't know if it's possible, but if so, it would be the most awesome. It only occured to me because I couldn't like the video fullscreen, but it was fullscreen, so whatevs.

“I'd like to see an embeddable html5 video player as well, I believe this is a must-have option for future compatibility.”

I've noticed something not working with the HTML 5 player, perhaps a possible bug.

If I'm logged in, my videos all work fine using both the Flash player and the HTML 5 player.

If I'm not logged in and browse to a private album, enter the album password and then try and play the videos, they work fine with the Flash player but not with the HTML 5 player. Trying to play the videos with the HTML 5 player generates this error message: "Sorry - There was a problem loading this video".

I'll be playing a video in HTML 5 on Safari and the audio will cut out then a few seconds later the video stop... having heaps of other weird bugs also.

Really waiting for the HTML5 embed player. Any new info or eta?

My embedd video doesn't appear on Mac OSX 10.6.4 with Chrome 5.0.375.127 ....

sorry the link:

karate-geneve.ch/wpk/

Is there any way you would share your method of disallowing direct downloads of your files through HTML5? I am building my website based on and can't figure anything.

Is there any way to have the player show the users "video overview" of a video on load?

There is a nice feature on another video site where by adding the time place it becomes a link to the exact place in the video, playing from that point if clicked. Its very useful when describing something in a video, however unless in full screen mode I cannot see time codes on the videos.

e.g "I like the transition at 7:15, how do you do it?"

The time code "7:15" then becomes a link which takes you to 7:15mins into the video if clicked on, no code required.

Really, I just tried it "0:59 test" and although the timecode was clickable it didn't do anything. I even tried logging out and back in again, several refreshes too. I thought maybe pressing play and then the time code, because it wasn't playing, would do the trick but nothing happened. I am using Safari Version 5.0.3 (6533.19.4).

Also, I can only tell the time from fullscreen mode, any another way?

I am running a beta version of Flash, but the videos are in HTML5 right. I am using OS X 10.6.5 and the above version of Safari and the time code does not appear on hover, like you'd expect it to.

I think the necessity for the player to already have gone further than the time code is a big mistake. I've only ever used it once and that way allowed the 'cold' clicking of a time code link to zoom strait to the part, without the video being played or even having been started.

I think this way is better.

Watching this video (vimeo.com/6391239) from its embedded location here: okay.nl/ actually shows the time above the play bar, but not when viewed on Vimeo. Also full screen doesn't work on this one.

Hello Vimeo Team, you are doing a great job !

Your HTML5 player works great ! I got no problems at Win7 and Mac OS X. Also the iPhone version of my video is working without any problems.

I'm also waiting for the HTML5 embed player.

Best Regards,
Frank

A HTML5 or similar non-flash widget like the hubnut for mobile device support.

not working in opera :-(

Hi, I would like to see the HTML 5 player incorporate W3C
s ARIA tags and roles to make this player more accessible. It's not that hard.

For example the volume control would include: role="slider" aria-orientation="horizontal" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="{maxvolume}" aria-valuenow="{current value}"

All of this wrapped in a select tag etc etc.

If the H.264 is not the part of HTML5 standard and some browsers does not support it, please stream pure AV stream so end user can play it with any media player, like m.soundcloud.com did, vimeo then works on all platforms :-)

[on chrome] if you get a html5 embed code and then enter it on a page with nothing but the embed code, go to full-screen mode and then exit fullscreen, the video stays stretched on the whole page instead of coming back to the original size. very disturbing. this doesn't happen on vimeo.com tho.