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Angelos_1
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December 5, 2011
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FMS - HTML 5 video tag support

  • December 5, 2011
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Hi everyone, I'm a bit confused about HTML5 video support using FMS server.

We recenlty upgraded our FMS server to 4.5 to support video playback on mobile devices. What I would like is to have HTML5 video playback support on all HTML5 enabled browsers. Our users are currently uploading f4v files on the FMS server and I'm able to play them back using the following

FOR IOS devices:

<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls">

  <source src="http://fms-server/hls-vod/video.f4v.m3u8" type="video/mp4" />

</video>

For Flash browsers

Using rtmp on : rtmp://fms-server/vod/mp4:video.f4v

What I want is to only  HTML5 for all browsers (android/chrome/firefox/ie/ios). From my testing until know only IOS was successfull.

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    Anonymous
    December 5, 2011

    Most browsers don't support streaming video via the <video> tag. For all browsers other than Safari on iOS and OSX 10.7, and Android 3.0 or better, you'll need to use progressive download, or use Flash.

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    Angelos_1Author
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    December 5, 2011

    Thanks JayCharles, how can I use progressive download with FMS and video tag?

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    Anonymous
    December 5, 2011

    Assuming you have the media files in the webroot, you should be able to use http://myserver.com:8143/path/to/file.mp4 as the source attribute for the video object.

    You'll need to do some platform detection with javascript to determine which source to use. I'm not sure if FMS ships with any examples, as I haven't been working with FMS lately (I've been using Wowza)

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