On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 13:31 +0100, Hamza Awais wrote: > Thanks for your replies - Philippe/Michael > > > Just for my own understanding > > This stream solution [1] works on iphone-safari without any plugin.
This is a solution developed by Apple (called HTTP Live Streaming) and they proposed it to IETF. It is not supported directly by GStreamer (yet). > Also Palm has built WebOS with WebKit browser which supports stream-based > playback [2] (which i am assuming also shows video within the browser) > > Why WebKit/GTK doesnt support in browser Streaming playback is because it is > not part of media specification and it can be easily moved into browser if > the specification changes in future (correct me if i am wrong) Yes this is not in the spec, there is even a layout test called "unsupported-rtsp.html" ;) > . > Why iphone/palmWebOS supports in-browser playback of streaming media - (i > dont really get it but maybe it is because its their own handheld devices and > they can do anything with it ...) > I would guess so (for palm). > Right? > -Cheers > > [1] http://iphone.livestream.com > [2] > http://www.weboshelp.net/getting-started-with-webos/177-webos-and-gstreamer > ________________________________________ > From: Michael A. Peters [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:01 PM > To: Hamza Awais > Cc: Philippe Normand; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [webkit-gtk] LIVE video playback > > Hamza Awais wrote: > > Hi Philippe > > > > By LIVE/Streaming, i mean some thing like LIVE Broadcast stream (a TV > > channel stream) ... I know there is support for static file > > (http://url/file.ogg) playback in browsers with HTML5 support but > > what can we also play live stream-based source? like ustream.tv > > (provided the source supports non-flash streaming) > > I don't believe live streaming is part of the html 5 media > specification, so it probably is best done with an object tag so a > browser plugin could handle it. > > There is a totem browser plugin, for example, that may work if GStreamer > supports the stream. >
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