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Velocity Drift
Velocity Drift

Reputation: 11

Mpeg Dash html5 player or live video

simply put, I've been working at this problem and I can't seem to find a solution that works. I have been trying to locate a way to play live video from our Wowza server's MPEG dash streams with no luck. We're trying to stick to html5 's video tag since flash player doesn't work for our ARM based systems.

anyone have any clue on sources so I can actually get the foot in the door with this one? Feel like I've been charging at a brick wall all week.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2351

Answers (2)

Alexander Wolf
Alexander Wolf

Reputation: 604

As Szatmary already mentioned MPEG-DASH using only the HTML video tag and feeding the .mpd to it won't work in web-browsers. However, you do not have to implement a player on your own, as there are solutions available which also support live scenarios, like dash.js or bitdash. For a playout with dash.js, MSE support in browsers is mandatory, whereas bitdash uses also a Flash fallback. Both are working on Chrome on Android and can handle live streams.

Upvotes: 1

szatmary
szatmary

Reputation: 31140

the video tag will not work with DASH. Your browser needs to support Media Source Extensions (Many newer browsers do). Then each DASH segment needs to be downloaded and passed into MSE. DASH.js can do that for you. iOS does not support MSE. Nor does most android devices. for iOS you must use HLS in the <video> tag.

Upvotes: 0

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