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  Jim Jeffers commented on Building an HTML5 Video Player

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  @mike agreed, I was disappointed earlier this year as well but in the end it makes sense due to the limited screenspace and apple wanting control over the user experience. If you want a custom video player you'll need to do it by embedding a video player with some UIView's as overlays, much like building a custom camera UI.
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  @shaver you in fact need all of those items depicted in this presentation. Of course none of the AS3 files sit on the server. The 40+ hours come in writing all of those AS3 files. You are gravely misunderstanding the point. This is from an actual use case where a web based service needs to deliver custom cue points created by users to the video. I've been a flash developer for over 11 years. I know what I'm talking about. With the HTML5 solution no cue point service needs to be generated as we can generate the cue point resources directly in the HTML yielded to the page from our server side software. There's no third party layer (this is the main burden of using flash). @Mike Wilcox You are wrong. The HTML5 video tag is the only way to deliver video content via a webpage to the iphone. You might be insinuating that your custom player does not appear onthe iphone however, this is correct. To my own dismay you can't customize the appearance of your video player on the iPhone. Any custm video UI or interaction with video need be done via native solutions.
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