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"Use a desktop player! Browsers and video doesn't go together well, even in 2015 and especially when it's live. So for your best viewing experience please use a desktop player like VLC or mplayer."

Am I the only one to be bothered by this comment.

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What you're missing:

- multiple audio tracks for different languages - support of captions - support of multi-resolution/bitrate streams (like DASH) - support for "multi-view" or however you want to call it: the viewer chooses wether to see speaker, slides or both - ....

Why are you bothered by it. It's true. HTML5 live streaming is only reasonably done by Apple and only works in Safari. I wouldn't push flash video streaming if I were them either.

Which leaves streaming over http (not using the browser) or rtmp

I have no problem streaming with Chrome Mobile iOS... Works really well.

Firefox works fine, vlc does not. Not bothered though.

Fair enough. I've been trying to do live streaming in an automated fashion and always failed. Mostly it's apples way or the flash way. Everything else is absurdly hard to maintain.

Firefox's built-in mp4 player is working for me well, for both live streams and recordings (the "re-live" section of streaming, which has all the talks that happened before folks in America woke up). So, they're at:

http://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/relive/

BTW, there's also a flash player for the "re-live" stuff, which isn't working for me on Linux at all; if you're having trouble with it, try the mp4s. (Just as well; I get to shove the flash-enabled browser profile back in its box.)

For me Firefox seems to be doing some weird thing with the live video where you'll watch it and it will get stuck due to congestion or whatever, and then refreshing the page appears to restart the video from the beginning until the point where it broke. Very odd.

MPEG DASH works as well as Apple HLS, and does not require flash on modern browsers (it does require some javascript AFAIK). It works on desktop Safari but not iOS.

It actually works pretty well, about 70% consume our WebM Streams and the remaining 30% consume the MP4/HLS stream, either with Apple-Hardware or ffplay/vlc/mplayer.

It's more a warning that, if it doesn't work for you, you should try a desktop-player before crying on twitter :P

Yeah I don't really get this...seems to work well enough in Chrome. What am I missing?

With mplayer and vlc you can manually adjust the cache size.

8mb worked quite well the last years

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