Problem
I'm having videos on a webpage that show the first frame of the video and on hover play the video with a length of around 10 seconds and a resolution of around 720p. I thought of just uploading them to my provider's FTP storage. But then thought that they surely don't use CDNs to deliver content.
So my next thought was using something like Vimeo, Cloudinary, MUX...
I now have seen that I could add videos on a webpage with HLS (m3u8). But I've never done that before so I read my way through these streaming formats.
After that, I'm really unsure what to use in my case as it seems that HLS or DASH is usually more performant than downloading the whole file.
Vimeo for example would give me the option to get a direct link to the .mp4 or HLS.
I'm not seeing a video when using a standard tag. But I found articles that say HLS is now supported in every major browser.
Would you recommend going for such a use case with HLS or Dash and if yes what's the best way to implement it?
What I've tried
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source
src="https://player.vimeo.com/external/734323487.mpd?s=234"
// type="application/x-mpegURL"
/>
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Related
I figured out how to stream video from the camera on the Raspberry Pi, and how to receive and view it in the browser with an URL like:
http://picamhq:8080/?action=stream
The type of video is M-JPEG, and info on mjpeg-streamer is here.
Now, as the browser is capable to play this video stream, I expect that should also work inside a HTML web page. The advantage would be that such web page can additionally show some buttons to start and stop the streamer, and to change parameters, such as camera settings.
I looked into several answers of questions like How to embed streaming Video (rtmp) in HTML, but that is not about embedding the video in a html page.
I tried with a video tag like:
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay controls>
<source src="http://picamhq:8080/?action=stream" type="video/mjpeg">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Unfortunately, this does not work. The web page shows a dark rectangle where the video should play, and it seems to take forever to load the entire stream, which of course is not productive, as the stream will never end. Besides, I want low latency :-)
Then I looked at info like this SO question on live html streaming which talks about lots of complex stuff. Does that mean that the nice and simple mjpeg-streamer cannot make a stream that is compatible with the html video tag? And that a stream that the browser can play, does not necessarily work inside a html page?
The solution you are using is not actually streaming video it is sending a stream of individual JPEG images.
From the documentation:
This plugin streams JPEG data from input plugins via HTTP
If you look at a demo site for MJPEG_Streamer you can see this also as the output from the stream is displayed in an 'img' tag rather than a 'video' tag:
<p id="streamwrap" class="xform-p">
<img id="streamimage" class="xform" src="/?action=stream">
</p>
(from: http://hashey.dip.jp:8090/stream.html - note the demo does not appear to be sending a stream at the time of writing).
You could convert this stream to video or for your requirements you might just need to add control to start and stop making requests to get the current image from the stream.
I'm not an expert on the start/stop thing (you can control the camera with ajax calls to the raspberry webserver, i assume), but how about using an iframe for display?
<iframe width="640" height="355" src="http://picamhq:8080/?action=stream">
</iframe>
For some reason, my video on wordpress wont show up when I use iframe to view it. In I.E., it automatically loads the video into the windows media player versus playing through the iframe.
I am using a local mp4 for the video's. From what I can tell, there's no issues with my I-Frame code. Anyone got any idea's? I cant get it to play in the iframe!
You should not be using <iframe>'s like that. In the past it was a relatively more popular method, but extremely unreliable even back than.
What you should do instead is either encode your video's as .flv's and use flash to play them, or encode them for the 'new' html5 <video>-tag for which no additional plugins are required. To get the best results with the new tag you should convert for 3 different codecs, but H.264 gets you quite far. This is how it ends up looking if you have converted multiple formats:
<video controls>
<source src="somevideo.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="somevideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
I'm sorry; your browser doesn't support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8 or MP4 with H.264.
<!-- You can embed a Flash player here, to play your mp4 video in older browsers -->
</video>
And you can read more about it here.
I have had a look at a couple of players like Flow Player, JW Player and a couple more but I can't get it to work exactly in PHP code.
Is there any way to play FLV within HTML Video Tags?
I know MP4 and OGG files will but the thing that I am working on will produce an FLV file.
You should look at video.js from www.videojs.com I have been using it streaming live video feeds. It mimicks the video tag like this:
<video id="example_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin"
controls preload="auto" width="640" height="480"
poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png"
data-setup='{"example_option":true}'>
<source src="rtmp://localhost/live/test" type="rtmp/flv">
</video>
Works very well for me.
You might consider using some other players that are able to play FLV files; Known browsers (Chrome, Firefox etc...) are not able to run FLV files untill or unless you use some kind of flash player.
If you are using PHP, you might want to use a flash player! Use Adobe Flash Player, don't be shy! YouTube and many other websites use it.
You can also try to stick to the flayers you have already tried.
You can convert videos to MP4 or format of OGG. So that every browser can play the video file using the HTML5 <video></video> tag.
But Remember: Each browser has its own limitaion for playing a video file; you can read browser support here: Mozilla Developer Network
Play it with Flash. I think it is the only way: http://css-tricks.com/forums/topic/how-to-play-flv-in-html5/
You can do it using flv.js or via MediaElement.js (that will use flv.js underneath), although the support is limited to FLVs that contain H.264 video with AAC/MP3 audio.
Use MediaInfo software or your favorite video player to check what codecs are used in your FLVs.
And if you have H.264 + AAC inside, you can also convert it to MP4 losslessly, without reencoding:
ffmpeg -i input.flv -codec copy output.mp4
Technically speaking the HTML5 video specification is codec/protocol agnostic so one could imagine support for flv files could be possible. Problem is: none of the major web browser has implemented it (probably because flv is a proprietary container from Adobe). You will need a flash component to play it back. Either one of the players you mentioned or if you are looking for a standalone free flash player try strobe from Adobe. You can try it here.
If you can produce .f4v files you may have success in renaming them to mp4 and then try and play them in an HTML5 video tag.
This code works for a moment but i think the links changes, cause the next day it is not found?
the video played under Firefox/Chrome/Opera... how to make the video tag play this video permanently?!
<video width="480" height="270" controls="controls" style="color:green;">
<source src="youtubelink" type="video/mp4">
<source src="youtubelink" type="video/ogg">
<source src="youtubelink" type="video/webm">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
There isn't really a reliable way to actually play a YouTube video inside a real video tag. YouTube doesn't want you doing that, and it's probably against their TOS. In any case, that URL is probably going to change regularly, whether YT adjusts their infrastructure or they go out of their way to stop people from directly accessing the video files.
However, there are a few steps you can take to be able to do just about everything you could do if you were using the video tag. To start, you can add the "html5=1" hint to the embed, which will tell youtube to use html5 video instead of Flash (it usually complies, but not always). The video will be in an iframe, but you can apply all the usual CSS tricks to that iframe - opacity, transforms, etc.
If you're using the YouTube API, add html5: 1 to the playerVars. If you're just doing a straight iframe embed, add it to the query string like this:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/okqEVeNqBhc?html5=1
Now, if you want to go one step further, Popcorn.js now has a nifty wrapper object for the YouTube API that will make a YouTube (they have one for Vimeo too) video behave like an HTMLVideoElement, with most of the same properties, methods and events. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty good.
Note: The official source for that file is on the mozilla/popcorn-js repo, but this one is currently ahead with bug fixes and features. You need to include the latest version of Popcorn.js and wrappers/common/popcorn._MediaElementProto.js from that repo. Make sure you add &html5=1 to the YT URL when you set the src.
The differences you'll notice are:
Even with the wrapper, the HTML5 video API just performs a little bit better than the YT API. e.g., more responsive and better reporting of buffering.
You can't get rid of the YouTube icon in the lower right corner that shows up on pause or mouseover.
You can't keep YouTube from showing ads.
You can't access the actual video/audio content for things like the Audio API and canvas/webgl drawing. But you couldn't do that anyway because of cross-origin restrictions.
Alright, I have a server that serves a motion-jpeg stream over http. What I would like to be able to do is connect to the server and visualize the stream in a browser, preferibly inside a canvas element. Browser should be Safari Mobile.
Is it possible to take the stream with XMLHttpRequest, take the single JPEG images out and put them within a canvas element? Keep in mind that the stream is live, thus possibly endless.
Sorry to revive an old topic but i was faced with this problem and i didnt want to use an other player just native html5
I found one way to display the video inside html5 with "poster" attribute
<video width="360" height="420" controls poster="/video" autoplay>
<source src="/audio.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
</video>
Might not be what you expected but it works.
iOs mobile Safari supports MJPEG natively over http. Is there specific reason you need it in Canvas?
see http://bridgecam2.halton.gov.uk/mjpg/video.mjpg?camera=1 on a ipad/iphone