G+_Albert Rios Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I removed Flash player from my system as suggested due to the holes in Flash. The problem now is that when I try to watch Twit.tv Live; I can't? Flash Plugin needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Try using flvplayer, should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Brand Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 In all of the discussion about dumping flash "because HTML5 and JS can do it all" there's one glaring hole: streaming video. RTMP, an Adobe protocol, was never supported on iOS devices which are largely to credit for the move away from Flash. HLS, uses a TS encoded stream. It consists of segmented files and a playlist that indicates the order and source URL of each. This means that: * The segment must be completed before it can be downloaded by any viewer. The duration of the segment dictates the amount of delay from "live". This pushes us further from a real-time stream. * It doesn't use the MP4 container which is the only format supported by mobile devices and the most popular format on desktop browsers. It's not practical to do so because the metadata (MOOV) contains details about the completed file - something that can't be done on a continuous live stream. That said, given that the HLS segments are finished files, this shouldn't be a problem. I don't know the details of the spec/format of the .ts files. Finally, I haven't researched whether YouTube live streams work through the HTML5 player and the In short, until HLS support comes to desktop browsers, Flash is still needed for live streaming of video. Sorry for the rant but I hope it contains some useful info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Brand Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Promising upcoming technologies that may solve this: * Media Source Extensions * MPEG-DASH Also, see the answer here for lots of details on the subject. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21921790/best-approach-to-real-time-http-streaming-to-html5-video-client Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 We'll do it as a segment next week. :) All will be well in Know Land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_nn tt Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I use the Chrome browsers if a webpage needs flash. My understanding is that Chrome has flash in it but it is sandboxed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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