Force PopcornJS to Prefer HTML5 Media

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Issue reported: mozilla#429
Reported by: @apricated

@apricated
apricated commented on 20 Jan 2015
Noticing some issues with embed iframes from YouTube, when browser tries to load Flash version of YT's player (Safari on Mac; Firefox on Windows and Mac). Is there a way to force Popcorn to prefer the HTML5 player -- or a fork/plugin that does the same?

@ScottDowne
Contributor
ScottDowne commented on 20 Jan 2015
The YouTube wrapper should default to HTML5 if not explicitly told otherwise.

YouTube then falls back to flash if HTML5 is not available.

Or, that's how it should work, and if it's not, it sounds like a bug.

@apricated
apricated commented on 23 Jan 2015
@ScottDowne

Thanks for the reply.

Looked into it further, and noticed the Flash player was being invoked both when the YouTube video played successfully, and when it failed.

It's totally intermittent; the same code will work one moment, and fail the next, with no difference in output to the error console.

Could be the same as this issue:
mozilla#423