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Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by jewel on Saturday December 06, 2014 @10:12PM (#8711113)
The webm video container live-streams fantastically well. It's just the MP4 container that is broken and doesn't live-stream.

Note that if you put H264 in an MPEG2-TS container that it will stream fine as well, but unfortunately that's not supported by browsers. (It also is inefficient, which makes it a poor choice.)

There is fragmented MP4, (usually called fMP4), which is a single MP4 file with multiple fragments inside. The last time I looked this wasn't supported by any browser, but now it looks like there's been work to integrate it into chrome and firefox.

The reason that single-file live-streaming is useful is that you can point the video tag's SRC at a URL that just calls popen on an FFMPEG process and transcode video on the fly, or even create new content immediately.

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Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by lern_too_spel on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:39AM (#8712661)
GP is talking about adaptive streaming with HLS. What you're discussing works only if all your clients have the same bandwidth.
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