html5-Video-Tag vs. Streaming Server

Question

Thanks to html5 it's very easy to stream a video to the customer by just adding it to the page with the -tag.

Anyway lots of big services (you-tube etc.) are still using streaming servers and flash to stream videos.

What's the benefit of this technologies?

Does it make any performance difference or difference for users perception? How does html5-video handle many request at a time?

Answer 1

At the moment the main benefits of flash are:

• Easy to add Ads
• Browser compatibility
• No need to support many different codecs

So if you need any of this you might choose Flash