NexStreaming announced today the release of NexPlayer HTML5, an HLS/DASH streaming player that enables the highest video quality across all browsers.

Sofia, Bulgaria (05 May 2015) HTML5 & WebRTC innovator Viblast launched today Viblast Player, a plugin-free solution that enables playback of adaptive HLS and MPEG-DASH playlists in HTML5 browsers.

Browsers that do support HTML5 video don’t fall back to the Flash player just because there isn’t a source they support. The downside of this is obviously the complexity and cost of encoding every ...

YouTube started streaming VP9 videos in 2013 and has since served “hundreds of billions of VP9 videos.” Now that HTML5 video is the default on YouTube, Google is deprecating its old-style ...

Following its public unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Netflix on Tuesday officially invited beta users of OS X Yosemite to try out the streaming service's new plugin-free ...

Due to eroding support for browser plug-ins, Netflix is making plans to move its streaming service from Silverlight over to the emerging HTML5 video format. The movie-streaming service has used ...

And Netflix wants to get better! So Netflix is planning to move on from streaming on Silverlight and move towards HTML5 video. When that happens, streaming movies on Netflix might suck less.

The streaming music service has just launched a new Pandora Web app, which is accessible through the two game consoles and other set-top boxes with browsers that support HTML5.

YouTube worked with Elgato and XSplit to create software to support the new 60 fps streaming capabilities. Launching the HTML5 player will also let users skip back in livestreams and watch at 1.5 ...

"We are midway through switching to native HTML5 streaming for our laptop players, eliminating downloads (of Silverlight)," say executives in Netflix's third quarter investor letter.

Proposed web standard would allow copy protection on HTML5 video, but is it ‘unethical?’ A new HTML content protection proposal has met with criticism from developers at Google and Mozilla.

Hardware vendors are to blame for not updating older browsers to properly leverage HTML5, Mozilla's Christian Heilmann says.