YouTube HTML5 Video Player is an opt-in experiment for HTML5 support on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most videos.
Supported Browsers
We support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the h.264 video codec or the WebM format (with VP8 codec). These include:
- Firefox (WebM enabled version available here)
- Google Chrome (h.264 supported now, WebM enabled version available via Early Release Channel)
- Opera (WebM enabled version available here)
- Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)
