Firstly you need to setup a media streaming server. You can use Wowza, red5 or nginx-rtmp-module. Read their documentation and setup on OS you want.
All the engine are support HLS (Http Live Stream protocol that was developed by Apple). You should read documentation for config.
Example with nginx-rtmp-module:
rtmp {
server {
listen 1935; # Listen on standard RTMP port
chunk_size 4000;
application show {
live on;
# Turn on HLS
hls on;
hls_path /mnt/hls/;
hls_fragment 3;
hls_playlist_length 60;
# disable consuming the stream from nginx as rtmp
deny play all;
}
}
}
server {
listen 8080;
location /hls {
# Disable cache
add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
# CORS setup
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Range';
# allow CORS preflight requests
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
types {
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
video/mp2t ts;
}
root /mnt/;
}
}
After server was setup and configuration successful. you must use some rtmp encoder software (OBS, wirecast ...) for start streaming like youtube or twitchtv.
In client side (browser in your case) you can use Videojs or JWplayer to play video for end user. You can do something like below for Videojs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Live Streaming</title>
<link href="//vjs.zencdn.net/5.8/video-js.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//vjs.zencdn.net/5.8/video.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<video id="player" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" height="360" width="640" controls preload="none">
<source src="http://localhost:8080/hls/stream.m3u8" type="application/x-mpegURL" />
</video>
<script>
var player = videojs('#player');
</script>
</body>
</html>
You don't need to add others plugin like flash (because we use HLS not rtmp). This player can work well cross browser with out flash.
