Downloader: SublimeVideo - super-sexy new HTML5 video player

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

SublimeVideo - super-sexy new HTML5 video player

Filed under: Utilities, Video, Web services

With the showdown between Apple and Adobe over the relevance (or lack thereof) of Flash video, you're going to be reading an awful lot about HTML5 video in the near future. Although it's not completely ubiquitous yet, YouTube and Vimeo have already started to support HTML5. Things are also looking up for folks who want to use the HTML5 <video> tag to embed videos on their own sites. Jilion, a Swiss development and design house, is nearly ready to publicly launch its slick and sexy HTML5 player, SublimeVideo.

You can already check out a demo of SublimeVideo in Chrome and Safari, or IE with Chrome Frame. When it's done, it will work in Firefox, too. It already sports a nice full-window mode with gorgeous minimize/maximize transitions (full-screen will be supported in the final version), as well as the ability to skip anywhere in the video and have it start buffering from there. SublimePlayer is all HTML5, with no plugins required, but it will eventually include the option to fall back on Flash in Internet Explorer.

Although it's not ready for public release yet, SublimeVideo already looks pretty drool-worthy to me, and if it lives up to its initial promise, I'm excited to use it to embed video on my sites in the future. (And, as John Gruber points out, it'll be viewable on iPhones, too!)

[via Daring Fireball]