HTML5 Multi-platform player with one Wowza stream

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GOAL

FLV Video files being served by Wowza Media Server to be played on all devices, platform/browser independent. I'm currently working with a player loaded with AJAX which uses VideoJS.

WHERE IM WORKING

http://activemd.net/html5/

THE CODE

It seems like you have to provide 3 different types of videos for HTML5, so my approach is trying to have Wowza transcode them to the 3 types.

<video id="example_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls="" preload="none" width="432" height="300" poster="amd-poster.jpg" autoplay="" data-setup="{}">
<source src="http://74.208.104.107:1935/riverview/mp4:ri_martino.flv" type="video/mp4">
<source src="http://74.208.104.107:1935/riverview/webm:ri_martino.flv" type="video/webm">
<source src="http://74.208.104.107:1935/riverview/ogg:ri_martino.flv" type="video/ogg">
</video>

PROBLEM

My videos won't play, anywhere. When I use http versions of the videos, my player plays them without a problem.

WHAT I HAVE TRIED

An example from the StackOverflow post at: Wowza, iOS and HTML5 video tag

An example from the Wowza post at: http://www.wowza.com/forums/content.php?35-How-to-set-up-video-on-demand-streaming

QUESTION

How can I get my FLV videos to be streamed to all devices, regardless of platform or browser?

Am I going about the whole transcoding approach incorrectly?

Thanks. Rick

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You wull need to convert the flv videos to mp4 format, so far that I know the transcoding only work for live streaming – fmodos
Did you get this working? We are in the same boat. – FauxReal

1 Answers

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WebM & Ogg are not supported for Video On Demand (VOD) application. You must convert the file to MP4. You can also use JW Player which is a Wowza supported player.