HLS is very similiar to DASH what we already have. But, I had heard there is a plan to move DASH to an App, based on media stream graph, just like what our PDF reader is now. (Maybe roc know more about it.) So, HLS can be implemented in the same approach.
As far as I know, Google also start a DASH implementation for YouTube, accroding the following page. http://dash-mse-test.appspot.com/ I am not sure if Youtube or Google is planning to roll out DASH officially. If they are, we don't necessary have to support HLS, just use DASH instead. Another solution is RTSP that is under reviews, Youtube also runs RTSP. Since HLS is very similar to DASH, IIRC, there are some tools/scripts can convert containers between HLS and DASH. It is possible to have a simple gateway on the devices or networks to translate HLS for DASH. From: Sotaro Ikeda <[email protected]> Subject: Youtube Live Support on B2G Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:03:25 -0700 (PDT) > Hi all, > > Current Firefox OS device does not support Youtube Live Streaming. Youtube > use HLS on mobile platform for it. Firefox does not support HLS, because MSE > is more promising now. Without support of HLS on Firefox, use do not have a > problem to watch Youtube Live Streaming on desktop and android. On desktop, > flash plugin is used for it. On android, user can watch it by Youtube app. > But on B2g, without HLS support, user can not watch Youtube Live on Firefox > OS device. Is there no problem to support HLS only on B2g? If it is a > problem, is there a other solution for it? > > Thanks in advance. > Sotaro > _______________________________________________ > dev-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
