Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:31 am by patters
Zip - Is there a reason you don't have FlowPlayer automatically hand off to the browser HTML5 support when present? I'm fairly sure I read on the FlowPlayer site that this is possible. On my MacBook Air for instance, FlowPlayer works the cpu very hard during MediaBrowser playback. In Safari I use an extension ClickToPlugin specifically to reduce CPU load (and increase battery life). This also contains some .js wrappers to force sites like YouTube to render video as HTML5 and even 1080p content plays smoothly with negligible CPU load. Without HTML5 playback, Media Browser is pretty unusable on my Mac because it results in screaming fans within a few minutes.
If FlowPlayer can't do this checking and fallback, there are some other code examples out there:
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/issues/993