On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Anthony Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was just trying to answer your road map question but it looks like
> you already saw the wiki page. Media Source Extensions provides the
> infrastructure to implement DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over
> HTTP). Because DASH is over HTTP it is more cache and firewall
> friendly than WebRTC. WebRTC is more useful for a point-to-point
> connection such as a video call or something like Chromecast.

Thanks for clarification, this is very interesting!

> You can enable [the MediaSource API] in nightly by setting the pref to
> true. The same would hold on Firefox OS except it is trickier to set
> the pref:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/QA/Tips_And_Tricks#Changing_preferences

I added to `prefs.js`:

   user_pref("media.mediasource.enabled", true)

Now the [demo][1] works on my [Keon][2] with the [October 27 nightly][3]. :-)

PS: Just realized that I accidentally moved the discussion off list -
clicked the wrong reply button. Fixed.

[1]: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/mse/mediasource_demo.html
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone_Keon
[3]: http://downloads.geeksphone.com/
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