October 2015

Industry

• Happy Valley or House of Cards? Television in 2020

• Facebook video page

• PewDiePie: how the YouTube king clocked up 40m fans and 10bn views: 

'Television is just another promotional channel ...'

• Faster, smoother, safer videos on Chrome
• DASH or HLS?

WebRTC, realtime, communication

• Audio Testing: Automatic Gain Control: in depth technical discussion by Google WebRTC engineer Patrik Höglund 

• MediaDevices: enumerateDevices() flagless in Chrome 47

• The Skype That I Wanted

• What's Next for WebRTC?: article from Chad Hart

Web Audio

• 2015 Music China contest

Video on <canvas>

• Canvas 'videos' made of multiple JPEGs (ht HTML5 Weekly)

Chrome

• Media controls in Android: for notifications, Android Wear and lock screen 

Plugins

• The future of plugins in Firefox: 'Because Adobe Flash is still a common part of the Web experience for most users, we will continue to support Flash within Firefox as an exception to the general plugin policy.'