Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the device being used to view the content.

Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

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, ...

The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction. But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia, it ...

The online music race is now an all-out sprint: Amazon, Google, and Apple are now all offering (or preparing to launch) services that let you upload your music collection to the cloud, letting you ...

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Twitch is taking steps to improve its video streaming experience by bringing viewers a closed beta of its HTML5 video player. Anyone with a Turbo subscription will be able to join the beta beginning ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

Hulu's player just got a lot better, but it also comes with bad news for those hoping the company would offer an HTML5 option. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

Last month, YouTube launched YouTube Gaming, a new livestreaming platform that goes head-to-head against Twitch, the biggest name in e-sports streaming. Twitch isn’t taking its newfound competition ...

OK so Quicktime and Windows Media Player 9 for Mac don't seem to offer any sort of playlist, i.e drag a bunch of files, they play one after the other.<br><br>VLC does, but doesn't accept .wmv files ...