Ooyala HTML5 Player

Question

Maybe I'm missing something, but hopefully someone here knows better than I...

I'm trying to install Ooyala's video player using their HTML5 API. However, in their HTML5 demo, there's no HTML5 to be found, just a flash player (as in the rest of their examples). Do they not actually have an HTML5 API, or am I doing something wrong? I was expecting video to be dropped in via a <video> tag or object embed or anything other than Flash.

Answer 1

Ooyala has recently upgraded to V3, also they have deprecated AS3 API. V3 supports flash video with HTML5 fallback. Also you can set HTML5 option by default as shown in example below. It's shame they haven't done HTML5 with flash fallback.

You can specify HTML5 platform as shown below. If you don't specify anything, flash version will be used by default with HTML5 fallback.

<script src='http://player.ooyala.com/v3/MzZiMzc1ZDUzZGVlYmMxNzA3Y2MzNjBk?platform=html5'></script>

This demo uses HTML5 version: http://demo.ooyala.com/product-demos/OOview_Win8/OOView/player.html

More implementation information can be found here: http://support.ooyala.com/developers/documentation/reference/player_v3_dev_embedplayer.html