Last time we looked at making your HTML5 video degrade to a flash player. This post will look at how to default to the flash player and fall back to links to the HTML5 video for the smaller segment that do not have flash enabled on their browser or are viewing on their iPhone or iPad. All I did was convert my source video to flash (FLV), H.264 (MP4), and Ogg (OGV). I set up my flash player to run as usual, but instead of giving those without flash a link to get flash, I give them two links. One will let the Safari and Chrome crowd, including those with hand-held devices, watch the MP4 file in the HTML5 player (or to download it). The other link lets the Firefox, Opera, and Chrome crowd watch the OGV file in situ (or to download it).
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