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Any audio or video file offered for viewing needs a special player that converts digital information into a user-accessible one. One such tool available is the html5 player. About what it is good for, and what its shortcomings are - we will learn below.
html5 player development and features
The player players belong to a new generation of virtual players, thanks to which high-quality support for all video and audio files that exist today is carried out. The developers of this project tested it on YouTube, and even offered users to compare the quality of the video feed with the html5 player with the obsolete flash player. The introduction of a new video player meant solving such problems as:
- lack of freezing and vulnerabilities;
- instant opening of videos;
- support for 64-bit video;
- video playback of new formats (H.264, HTMLVideoElement, etc.).
The new video player was set to default by default back in early 2017. Users planning to watch a video stumbled upon such a picture, which can be extracted by hovering over the video.
But as you can see, you don’t need to specifically download the player: when you visit YouTube again, it will be offered to you and installed for free.
But here's the problem: the current use of the new video player has marked a number of problems that developers are in no hurry to fix. The standard complaints of YouTube visitors come down to:
- constant freezing of the video sequence;
- the appearance of alien elements (artifacts) on the video;
- image incorrectness or lack thereof on many popular browsers.
In many cases, the failure of the html5 system is due to outdated hardware, which users are in no hurry to update, due to its reliability and comparative serviceability. Sometimes the cause is outdated software that does not support drivers for the new format video player. Any of these reasons can spoil the impression of watching a fresh video. If you are one of those unfortunates, we suggest that you solve this problem quite simply by disabling the default html5 and installing an outdated but simple and reliable flash player. So, how to disable html5 in popular browsers?
disable html5 on firefox
To disable html5 on this browser, you can use two methods: manually and using special programs.
The software way is "cleaner" and removes the problem completely. To do this, you can use the Disable Youtube HTML5 Player plugin, which will hide the new player from our eyes and set the default flash player. You can also change the settings of the video player manually. To do this: enter the command in the firefox search bar about:config, a warning window immediately pops up.
It is not known what kind of guarantee for a free browser, but oh well. Move on.
These are all the current settings of our browser. We are only interested in a few. In order not to look for them, breaking your eyes, enter settings such as:
- ogg.enabled;
- wave.enabled;
- webm.enabled;
- windows-media-foundation.enabled.
Enter in the search bar - and disable. To disable, just hover over the setting and double-click. If everything is done correctly, the state of the setting will change - instead of true, false will appear.
After that, you should restart the browser and when you open any video, we will be able to play it from the old flash player.
Adobe Flash Player is living its last years. This platform is obsolete, and developers will no longer support it by 2020. Many companies, programmers and enthusiasts have already begun to abandon the proven format in favor of progressive, but still "raw" technologies. One such innovation is the "HTML5" video player, which could potentially replace the good old Flash Player.
Not all users can boast of powerful and modern personal computers with all operating system updates (drivers, codecs). Not everyone has it installed (the higher the version, the fewer errors during operation). But everyone is interested in life, boiling in the global Internet. Thousands of films and series, tens of thousands of clips, hundreds of thousands of funny amateur videos can be found and watched through the World Wide Web anywhere on the planet Earth.
If graphical distortion occurs when watching a video on a computer, the user should not be upset and look for an alternative for viewing. The first thing to do is to check the performance of your PC, whether all updates, drivers and codecs are available and in working order. The second nuance is checking the video player built into the Mozilla Internet browser itself. Developers from Mozilla Corporation are trying to please all their fans and just users of the search engine. Therefore, everyone has the opportunity to view video images through various players: Flash Player or HTML5. To check which player is enabled in the Firefox browser, just right-click on the screen with the video sequence.
How to disable HTML5 in Firefox
If the user's personal computer is inferior in technical characteristics to its modern counterparts, you can try changing the player from HTML5 to Adobe Flash Player. To do this, go to the hidden browser settings by typing " about:config". The developers kindly warn about the risks associated with changes in the "fine" settings. We take responsibility.
In the "Search:" window, for ease of finding to change the parameters, you need to type the English word "media".
The four parameters that can be enabled by default should be changed from "true" to "false". That is, turn them off by double-clicking the left mouse button.
- media.ogg.enabled
- media.wave.enabled
- media.webm.enabled
- media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
After restarting the Mozilla Firefox browser, the settings will take effect and the new HTML5 player will change to Adobe Flash Player.
How to enable HTML5 in Firefox
If it is necessary to carry out the reverse manipulation and change the old player from Adobe to a progressive analogue, the user needs to carry out the same manipulations with the above parameters from "false" to "true". After restarting the Internet browser, the video should show without interference and failures.
If you compare the YouTube that exists today with the one that was 5-7 years ago, then these are completely different concepts ......
Hundreds of terabytes of exclusive content, a constantly growing audience and - a lot has changed, but first things first…………………….
→ Back in the run-up to 2017, YouTube announced a new HTML5 player.
Interestingly, at first, users had the right to choose, but now everyone is forced to impose a new browser.
Not surprisingly, the new feature has its supporters and opponents, so below we will talk about html5 technology on YouTube, as well as how to disable it. ↓↓↓
What is this Player???
Many YouTube users at the end of 2016 began to observe problems with the service!!!
As it turned out, the reason lay in another novelty - the html5 video player.
Problem example ↓↓↓
Why the new feature turned out to be a burden for many and how to turn it off - further in detail ⇓
→ The html5 player is a new video playback standard that has replaced the obsolete flash player.
→ Back at the end of 2016, everyone could test the function by activating the corresponding button ().
The developers promised a lot of interesting goodies, including:
- lack of vulnerabilities and inhibition;
- fast opening videos;
- 64-bit video support;
- playback of new standards (H.264, HTMLVideoElement, etc.).
In fact, everything turned out to be much worse, because instead of the promised “innovations”, users got a lot of problems:
- permanent hanging;
- the appearance of artifacts on the video;
- incorrect display in many browsers.
As it turned out, the main reasons are related to:
- obsolete hardware
- software inconsistency
- drivers
- browser and more.
Now at () you can see the inscription “Now using the HTML5 player whenever possible”, therefore, most viewers no longer have a choice.
Attention!
To check which player is currently in use, hover your mouse over the video and click on the right button.
If at the bottom there is an item "About html5 player", then the corresponding player is used
Here ↓
That is why we have prepared the best ways on how to disable YouTube html5 player in different browsers.
This is quite real and will not take much time, so read carefully. ⇓⇓⇓
Remove this playerFirefox
On Firefox, the problem can be solved in at least two ways:
1) Through special add-ons (Disable Youtube HTML5 Player)
2) Or manually.
In the first case, just installing the appropriate extension is enough to disable the html5 player in YouTube.
But the simplest method we will consider below: ↓↓↓
- Enter “about:config” in the search box, after which the developer panel will open.
- Copy these components into a separate document: "media.ogg.enabled", "media.wave.enabled", "media.webm.enabled", "media.windows-media-foundation.enabled".
- We copy each of them into the corresponding search string, find it in the list and disable it. To do this, you can double-click on the entry.
- This action must be done with each component listed above.
- Now restart your browser.
You may notice that now the videos are played through the flash player. !!!
In general, nothing complicated and after 5 minutes you can enjoy your favorite videos.
Now let's learn how to do it in other browsers ⇓⇓⇓
Remove this playerinChromeandOpera
Now we will look at another method of how to disable this player using a special application - Disable Youtube HTML5 Player ↵
This method is suitable for Opera and Chrome browsers.
Below we will describe how to install this extension using the Google Chrome browser as an example:
- follow the link we provided above;
- click on the "Install" button and wait for the process to finish;
- restart your browser.
In the "Settings" - "Additional Tools" - "Extensions" section, you can see that the utility is installed.
P.S.- Make sure the "Enable" checkbox is checked.
Open any video and right click and you will notice that the Flash player is already working.
If necessary, you can disable the disable YouTube html5 player in the extensions and then the Flash player will not work again. In the Opera browser, the procedure is similar, so there is no point in describing it in detail.
As experience shows, this method helps to get rid of the constant braking of videos, as well as other playback problems.
Thus, we can conclude that the YouTube management presented a rather crude product, however, it’s good that you can always turn off such improvements yourself.
If suddenly the videos on Youtube began to display incorrectly: slow down, freeze, be distorted by artifacts - check with which player this video is played. If it turns out that this is HTML5, then in this article we will tell you how to disable it and return the familiar Flash Player for the Mozilla Firefox browser.
The reason lies in the fact that recently the YouTube development team began to migrate the default video displayer from the obsolete Flash Player to the new HTML5 video player. In addition to its advantages, it still has a number of disadvantages: it is more “heavy” (the image will “fail” on aging computers), it has problems with full-screen mode (buttons disappear), compatibility problems with some video card drivers, codecs, etc.
Checking the player version is very simple - you need to right-click on the video and read the information about the player in the drop-down menu:
In order to disable it and return Adobe Flash Player back:
1. Type in the browser address bar about:config
2. Promise you'll be careful:
3. Here you will see different browser settings values. To make it easier for yourself to find what you need, type in the "Search:" word media. Find and change the values of fields with names media.ogg.enabled, media.wave.enabled, media.webm.enabled, media.windows-media-foundation.enabled from "true" to "false" for each of them. To do this, double-click on each found line:
After changing these settings, Firefox will no longer play online video in the new HTML5 player, and will therefore open it with the Adobe Flash plugin, as it did before.
4. Restart your browser or clear its cache and try reopening any video. Check the player version with the right mouse button:
If you want to return support for the HTML5 video player to your browser, simply return the changed values back to “true”.
PS. If possible, try updating your graphics card drivers first. Perhaps after that, the image quality stabilizes and you do not need to change the player for online video.
Many users, when trying to play a video on Youtube, receive the following message - "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats." Most often, owners of Windows XP with the Mozilla FireFox browser encounter a playback error. The problem is also observed in other popular browsers: Google Chrome, Yandex, Opera and, of course, Internet Explorer. Today we will talk about all the possible causes of the failure and their elimination.
Reasons for playback failure
The bug itself appeared relatively recently. It is connected with the active transition of the YouTube service to support HTML5 technology, which is not supported in browsers with outdated versions. The error also appears in updated versions on Windows 7 and 10. Here it is worth talking about extensions that block access to displaying video in HTML5 format. The third reason is that the new video did not have time to load. Let's look at all the solutions that fix the crash.
Fixing the error
Let's check all the above points one by one. I’ll note right away that I won’t describe all half-measures (reboot, new Flash Player, erasing cache / cookies), because there will be no sense from them. You will need to check the following.
#1 Checking for updates
First of all, you need to update your browser to the latest version. The principle of updating in all applications is the same. However, here is a short guide:
The current versions of these programs include most of the necessary video codecs for YouTube. You can check which ones are supported at this address - youtube.com/html5. It is possible that some codecs will be with an exclamation mark, but be sure to check that there is a check mark next to the first codec HTMLVideoElement. The problem should be gone.
#2 Blocking additions
If the last paragraph did not help you, try disabling unnecessary extensions. The fact is that various plugins and extensions can block the display of video in HTML 5 format. For example, these plugins most often cause the problem - “Flash Player for YouTube™” and “Disable Youtube™ HTML5 Player”. Direct download extensions, ad blockers, etc. also fail.
- Open the page with the list of installed extensions. For example, in Chrome it is here chrome://extensions/, and in Mozilla here - about:addons.
- Turn off all active plug-ins one by one and check the playback. Should help.
I will separately mention Flash Player, which conflicts with new versions of Chrome. You should also try turning it off. If you still have an old version, then go here - chrome://plugins, in the list of plugins, select flash and disable it. In the new version, go here - chrome://settings/content/flash. In step "Block" there is an option "Add", I recommend to enter YouTube there. For other browsers on the net, there is a lot of information on disabling Flash Player - try it.
#3 New video
Check the video release time. If it's a few hours, then the problem may be on the servers side. Many users note that after waiting a little time, they start the video without problems. Perhaps this is your case.
Conclusion
If you did everything correctly, then the error “Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats” should disappear. Finally, it's worth mentioning that Mozilla and Chrome recently dropped support for their application on Windows XP. In this case, to solve the error, you will need to separately install codec support plugins. Here is a visual video instruction on the example of Mozilla.
