How to stream videos through HTML5?

Question

I need to stream videos through HTML5. Is that possible, are there any free sources to try that into my own application? Thanks!

Solution

If you mean just deliver video like Youtube or any other video site, you just use the <video> element to deliver it. Its pretty much like displaying an image (JPEG). Its just progressively downloaded to the user's browser. More details about Video at Dive into HTML5.

However, if you mean live-stream or streamed to a user such that its not really downloaded, I'm sure there are no way so far to do that without using a solution like a Flash Player client with a streaming server back-end - Flash Media Server, WowzaMedia, Red5, etc, etc.

Comments

[Test Test]

How can this be live streaming since I can click further in the video and still takes me there?

[sonnuforevis]

What had changed nowadays? Are the tools that help to stream video via HTML5?

[gregers]

@TestTest because HLS-files can be saved for later. It's just a bunch of small video segments and an index-file that is updated live. Apple has a pretty good explanation here: developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/…