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Re:Easy Netflix-Like Streaming: Create ABR Content for S3/Cl... by mikeryan on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:20AM (#9458038)
Um if you need flash to play the video it's not an HTML5 player. Neither of these formats have consistent HTML5 video tag support across browsers.
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Re:Easy Netflix-Like Streaming: Create ABR Content for S3/Cl... by schellkenig on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:39AM (#9458150)
You are right on some browsers you need flash as the haven't implemented the MSE yet, but still you get adaptive playback. MPEG-DASH is already working nativly through HTML5 in chrome, ie11 win8, chromecast. Firefox currently implements the support and with HLS together you can reach all major platforms as shown in http://www.bitcodin.com/blog/2015/03/mpeg-dash-device-compat....
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