Twitch is testing its HTML5 player.
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Twitch readies its long-awaited HTML5 video player

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Twitch is about to come through on a promise to its game-livestream spectators and broadcasters. The San Francisco gameplay livestreaming company is announcing today that it has a test version of its HTML5 video player.

The new video player will replace the much-maligned Flash player. It is going into closed beta testing now, and it will eventually replace Flash. Starting today, users with Turbo subscriptions will be able to join the beta and begin viewing broadcasts in HTML5, which is the lingua franca of the web. Twitch promised the player to its community a year ago at its TwitchCon conference. More users will get access to the player over the summer.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.