Why would someone in their right mind use this?
Honestly, Flash is less harmful for web than stupid libraries like this which aren’t crossplatform.

Doesn’t work in Opera (probably ever), doesn’t work in Firefox (at the moment) and doesn’t work in Chromium.

Browser sniffing for the win.
Let me guess, the author of SublimeVideo player uses Mac and Safari?

This may sound a bit harsh but nobody should even link to stuff like this because it is bad for web. It is pretty yes, but there are lot more important things than looks when it comes to web.

Whilst I’m sure this is great, it doesn’t support browsers people actually use – which is very bizzare

Much as I’d like to see a killer project which will effectively kill IE – there’sno FF support – and this isn’t it.

One for the future though.

good player and nice design
thanks

It looks good. Can’t wait to give it a test when it’s release. I know Firefox is not currently supported but it is possible, as Dan noted, that it’s due to what Firefox supports and not Sublime Video.

My guess is that this could be combined with something like Video For Everyone to provide a broader range of support.

I just hope Apple releases an official Safari build supporting full screen sooner rather than later. It’s the one thing that’s really holding HTML5 video back. Well, that and Firefox and their silly philosophical views on H.264 at the expense of users and developers.

This is very cool and promising. Unlike a comment above, I believe it is very important to link to sites that are showcasing items like these, whether they are currently practical to use or not. This shows what may be available in the future for website development once HTML5 is supported by all browsers. These guys designed a great looking video player, and in viewing it in Safari, it is quite smooth – they did a great job. It is naive to say that only currently support code/technology should be linked to and talked about… thinking like that is what hurts innovation, it does not help it.

I don’t like flash because it is such a big CPU consumer.
As others pointed out, all FireFox has to do is add support for some codecs, which they should have done already. I don’t know why FF does it, but it’s not going to make those codecs go away.

If this makes us a couple of tiny steps closer to the extinction of IE, then I am all for it.

You must also take in to account the fact that flash uses flv, which in turn uses patented video compression formats (H.264, Sorenson Spark, VP6, etc.)

Eric P: How is a more extensive HTML library harming the web? Flash is harming web development by being so data intensive.
Did you notice how fast the 720p video streamed, and were you monitoring your CPU?

A lot of comments here appear really negative to change. Flash is often a CPU hog compared to the new HTML5 video and therefor changing to the new embedded HTML5 video is a more efficient way to deliver video. Firefox does not support H.264 due to licensing issues, mainly due to the price tag on it…

The H.264 codec is cheap for non commercial use at the moment, however in 2016 the licensing for H.264 can be changed to whatever price they choose. And therefor I would try to restrict the use of H.264 and stick to the good old open source OGG!

I found this open source and easy to use HTML5 video player : http://fryplayer.net/

The player is actually a jQuery plugin and has very nice features like the ability to skin, buffering, full screen mode and keyboard shortcuts.

It is also possible to set the width-height and initial volume of the player.