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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