You need to get the HLS m3u8 playlist files from the video’s manifest. There are ways to do this by hand, but for simplicity I’ll be using the youtube-dl tool to get this information. I’ll be using this live stream as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtc-GtLlTk First, get the formats of the video: ➜ ~ youtube-dl –list-formats … Read more
There are many documents about Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming: HTTP Live Streaming Overview IETF HTTP Live Streaming Internet-Draft There are many encoder devices claim to support this protocol e.g., Inlet’s Spinnaker, acquired by Cisco and renamed to Cisco Media Processor Family. For a software solution, please give a visit to Wowza
Might be a little late with the answer but you need to supply the MIME type attribute in the video tag: type=”application/x-mpegURL”. The video tag I use for a 16:9 stream looks like this. <video width=”352″ height=”198″ controls> <source src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19782389/playlist.m3u8″ type=”application/x-mpegURL”> </video>
HTTP Live Streaming HTTP Live Streaming is a streaming standard proposed by Apple. See the latest draft standard. Files involved are .m4a for audio (if you want a stream of audio only). .ts for video. This is a MPEG-2 transport, usually with a h.264/AAC payload. It contains 10 seconds of video and it is created … Read more