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Nobody has mentioned Youtube using Flash initially to create the experience of ‘it just works.’

We had RealPlayer, Quicktime, and others, but video on the web was rather difficult.

And they only made HTML5 playback the default mode 4 years ago.

HLS DASH are never going to be as simple as RTMP was with flash. It "just worked" in a way the internet just doesn't anymore.

it s as if we are regressing