One ting that have been annoying me. Might not be spot on but anyhow. My oldest daughter has the new Sony Vaio P series and even with 2GB of ram it cant play Youtube videos in full Screen. Is this 2009???

PS: See the PW. A bit Apple looky? ;-)

Personally I would love to see continued support for open standards around video.One key factor of HTML5 is that it's <video&g; element was initially meant to have native support for the OGG codec. This has since been removed from the actual HTML5 spec, however many browsers are supporting it nonetheless. The key thing here is that we are no longer dependent on software from Adobe (Flash) or Apple (Quicktime) to embed movies directly into HTML.

Undoubtedly, Adobe would love to hold on to FLV for as long as possible (and rightfully so—it compresses very nicely), but perhaps they would be willing to lend support to this for HTML to embed the FLV file format without the need for a Flash wrapper?

So I suppose to sum up: what's next should involve moving away from a reliance on third-party video technology.

I agree with Kevin. I hope Adobe continue the H264 Support.

Adobe to work more close with Apple and not stand to firm on their own horse. QT and Flash is for me the choice of video online when it comes to video in web browser. Another ting that I would love to see in Flash is if Flash video Full Screen would stay full screen even if you use another program on another screen like QT and WMP does.

Performance is another big thing, but that's typically going to leave us at the mercy of the end-user's computer. Seriously though, why the hell can't I create a Flash site that has a 1900x1200 video running in the background? I mean really—this is 2010. I can live without a flying car for now, but can you at least give me fullscreen video that doesn't destroy the users' experience with the rest of my site?

Front-end developers shouldn't even have to think about the implications of using video and have to waste time with export settings, streaming vs. progressive vs. faked streaming, etc.. I should be able to drop a video in and not be the least bit concerned about video chugging or slowing down the rest of the site for the user. This is a problem even if the video is completely loaded.

Then there's also the case of a video not being loaded and still being downloaded. We need to address this on a micro level of continued codec improvement (getting the files smaller), or on a macro level of improving our communication infrastructure to get faster internet speeds (making the tubes bigger). As technology evolves, designers and developers only push it further, which works great for companies like Adobe and their community, but I feel that the hardware is much more difficult to bring into this loop.

While Kevin of course is right, that we must not forget about how many performance issues we still have, I would have to say that from an interaction design standpoint I think that video as a technology is already ahead of our perception of it at the moment.

Video has transformed into a digital medium a long time ago, but we don't always seem to be fully aware of that yet in the ways we interact with it. Video is not a reel or film spool anymore, that once it has been recorded stays the same forever, with a clear beginning and ending. I think video should and will lose its linearity. It can have dynamic elements and layers, like for example injecting today's news show into a TV in a movie that has been filmed years ago to make it appear like it plays in present day. It can have branches of content, so each time you watch a movie it might have a different storyline. It could have different camera angles, so while you're watching a movie you could switch to a different view of the same story. None of those ideas are really new nor do they make sense for all situations and concepts, but I think it's just sad that the way we treat the video in our video players didn't change in any drastic way since it first appeared. Sure it looks crisper than ever, but I think what we need above all are artists and designers who bring video to its next level by creating a new and improved interaction with it, beyond play button and progress bar.

Hey Dave,

Glad to hear that. But is the video video platform relating to people in countries where bandwidth is like gold.

Maybe a better streamlining video platform with low bandwidth idea....

Think of it