I am trying to figure out if it is possible to stream smooth streaming video on browser using HTML5? After several trial on IE, Chrome and Firefox, it is still without success. It seems like smooth streaming only works with SilverLight client or some smoothstreaming application.
Below is the video tag I use:
<video controls="controls"
src="http://smoothhd.code-shop.com/video/oceans.ssm/Manifest"
poster="poster.jpg"></video>
Does anyone know if I have done anything incorrect or it is just not possible to play it with HTML5?
It is not currently playable in a browser. It is playable within an HTML5 Metro app.
Read for how to do it in a Metro app: http://blogs.iis.net/cenkd/archive/2012/03/28/How-to-build-your-first-html5-metro-style-smooth-streaming-player.aspx
You can embed a Silverlight player, which will play that link (if the server has proper crossdomain.xml file).
It's not an equivalent solution of course, but anyway smth that might give you what you're looking for.
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I am trying to play live streaming videos in html5. I have tried red5 server to subscribe the video and it worked well. but the problem is, It is playing using flash in browser. I want to play the video in html5 video tag without using flash support.
Note: Live streaming format is flv.
Can anyone guide me with the best option to do this?
Thanks in advance.
You can use alternatives for flash player using third party player such as JW player, SublimeVideo, VideoJS, etc.
I would also look into html5_rtsp_player if you are looking for non http based protocol. (https://github.com/Streamedian/html5_rtsp_player)
Since HTML5 video does not support .flv at this time (or probably ever), you should use a post-processor (if recording to flv on Red5) to convert to .mp4 using ffmpeg. This will alleviate the unsupported container issue.
I made a streaming server and a website to show the Video. I have tried with many HTML5 player. But problem is no player working without enable flash on browser. There are a website http://jagobd.com and its playing video even I block flash on this site. How they did it? and How can I get this kind of player open source? could you please give me any solution?
My streaming link is Rtmp
RTMP is a Flash technology, and only plays in Flash or other players that support it. No browser supports RTMP, and it's unlikely that any will in the future.
If you want to use a regular HTML5 player, you need to use a compatible streaming format. Consider DASH. While it doesn't have native support in-browser, it doesn't need it as it can be handled with MediaSource Extensions. Most modern browsers support MSE. Many encoders do as well, and you can use whatever static web hosting or CDN you want.
There are other options for video distribution as well, if you have special streaming requirements.
I have a question. I know youtube has supported html5 for some time, so I just tried disabling the adobe flash plugin and took a look at the page source. I found no video tag. Could anybody explain that?
Using chrome, after disabling Flash, I do get a warning when trying to watch videos ("You need Flash!"), but it detects that I don't have flash, and uses the HTML5 version instead. If you use Chrome, you can look at the DOM with the developer tools (F12), and you'll indeed find a video tag in the video-container div, e.g.
<video class="video-stream" x-webkit-airplay="allow" src="http://o-o.preferred.twtelecom-dfw1.v15.lscache5.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?sparams=cp%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cratebypass%2Csource%2Cexpire&fexp=900161&itag=43&ip=207.0.0.0&signature=55FCBF36A597656FECBEC8E78051B3BD30EE8D97.8F8D573710D767EAF4429FBC54C940DF7611A1BE&sver=3&ratebypass=yes&source=youtube&expire=1330650696&key=yt1&ipbits=8&cp=U0hSRVZQTl9OUENOMl9OSlJHOlBlcHJOMW9PSHhH&id=381980b5e867a1c5" data-youtube-id="OBmAtehnocU"></video>
For almost everything Google does on the web they use javascript. Most likely what is happening is that they test the browser to make sure it supports HTML5 video, they then load the the video dynamically using javascript.
To verify, use a web browser tool to inspect the current html as it's shown, not as it's sent to the browser.
And as Marius noted, be sure to have HTML5 enabled
It looks like the browser on a Blackberry doesn't support either HTML 5 or Flash...
What's the best format to display video in it?
Thanks
BrowserSession is useful to paly video and audio formats in Blackberry.Visit following
links useful for you.
BlackBerry - Play mp4 video from remote server.
If you need information about Browser session the following link might help you.
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/11844/Browser_session_management_438294_11.jsp
You would use the object tag e.g.
<object data=FILENAME type=MIMETYPE>
You can see the supported video formats on different phones here (PDF).
Source
Latest version of blackberry (from 6.0). but however it is not that intelligent to play videos efficiently.
Is your application using native code ? If yes, then go for manual player or invoke default browser which has capability to play videos. I have done the same way for you tube videos.
Can I click on some time and eventhough the video is not downlaoded till that time and the video starts playing from the time I clicked?
If yes, what would be a better option for viewing streamed video- HTML5 or flash player like JW player? WHich one will have less lag?
HTML5 browsers generally don't support this, however I believe the video tag in Safari will work with the Apple HTTP Streaming format for this functionality. For something that works across all browsers, Flash Player can do it using either RTMP streaming or HTTP Streaming (either with our without OSMF to support this). Probably the easiest place to start is with OSMF, which supports both RTMP and HTTP streaming of video.
I have tested this with Firefox and Firebug and while you can "seek" to a point in the video without having to watch video preceding the point you wish to seek, this still causes the entire video file to download.
Indeed, each time you seek in Firefox 4, the entire video downloads.
This may change and improve as HTML 5 video implementations become more mature and may differ based on the actual browser being used.
More information on the test here:
http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Blog/Date/201106/Blog/HTML-5-Video-In-Real-Life/