HTML5 may still be in the future but some groups are already readying their systems for it. Think of content, websites and even videos – all gearing towards the latest standard in Internet data serving. And while today’s problems simply involve inconsistency of these contents with different devices, simple solutions such as Brightcove’s smart player are now available.

Director of Product Management at Brightcove Ashraf Alkarmi explained that their Video Cloud Smart Player aims to solve the problems brought upon by different browsers and operating systems used in the world. The application hopes to ease at this fragmentation bought upon by increasing number of products and devices from different creators and manufacturers. This after is all is among the problems that HTML5 hopes to solve.

If you’re a frequent streamer of online videos you will know that different devices would usually render a single video differently. Thanks to different encodings, video caching and what not, there’s no way to guarantee that a single video will appear exactly the same

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