The latest debate on over and around online fraternity is hanging around Flash To be or Flash not to be and intensified with Steve Jobs publication of an open letter showcasing reasons for prohibiting Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. And Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has its own narration to events and happenings. However, entire debate over Flash is emerging from and is over web video. Though Flash is also used by other means and tactics yet its use is getting decreased in games and has more reduced effect in website design too, yet due to YouTube and essentially as large part of YouTube video is Flash and is related to web video.

Web videos are mostly encoded in H.264 and is default encoding setting for practically every video service online, it is also by and large the default codec for raw video from digital video cameras. So uploaded video from a Flip camera, directly, to YouTube remains with same format with lesser time and resources. Adobe started supporting H.264 back in 2007 that procured as Flash could continue to be used as a video container without video services like The problem for Flash lies in the fact that can’t adapt to contain other types of video; it is that software and hardware, particularly on the mobile side, which has moved in a direction to natively, supports the playback of H.264 content. Even on devices that support Flash Lite, the video experience is almost always optimized for H.264. HTML5 simplifies the process to be integrated across multiple platforms.

As many web video providers are adapting HTML5 isn’t because Apple doesn’t support Flash, it is happening so because that it is the best way to deliver a mobile video experience to smartphone users in general. And Flash too has not delivered itself on mobile platforms and matter of fact Flash has existed as an entity entirely for desktop browser.

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