How To Enable HTML5 Video Player in YouTube

June 17th, 2010

YouTube by default will use its Flash video player even if you are using Safari or Chrome which supports HTML5 video. YouTube HTML5 video playback is in beta and is not enabled by default.

In order to use YouTube HTML5 video player, you need to visit YouTube site http://www.youtube.com/html5 to opt-in to enable this feature.