ARTICLE NO. 468    January 21, 2010

YouTube's updated player

by Constantinos Demetriadis

I just noticed that YouTube has yet again updated it's video player. And to my surprise, this time it realy works and looks great!

All the icons are in the right places, plus they all make sense visualy.

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTlm6dU2xHk

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Constantinos is employed as a Creative Director for Tribal DDB Athens. In his ever dwindling spare time he works on the development of UX Magazine and Joblet. You can find out more about him here of follow him on twitter.

View Profile

Comments

Add a new comment

Because of problems with spam comments, HTML in comments is not permitted. URLs are allowed, but they will not be rendered as clickable links.
January 22, 2010
Actually, the big improvement has come with the recent introduction of an HTML 5 player (currently as beta). It still uses MP4 (I would prefer OGG + Theora) so you'll be able to use it only with Chrome or Safari (not with Firefox). You can enable the HTML 5 based player at http://www.youtube.com/html5 From an UX point of view I think this will be a key improvement: * fastest loading time (playing is inbrowser, no flash plugin loading time) * easy coding -> easier UI development * standard HTML5 -> we will see browser plugins to improve/tweaks the default player (ala GreaseMonkey) Cool stuff IMHO.. FV
January 22, 2010
Most users won't be able to tell what 480p means at all... Still, these are nice little improvements.
January 22, 2010
Unfortunately it's very heavy on a 1.67GHz Powerbook, worse performance than ever before. In the last year web video has become completely unusable. *sigh*
January 21, 2010
I don't like it. The quality resolution menu goes over volume indicator because it have a little delay on closing...
  • Showing 1-4 of 4