# Best Flash player for for real-time Axis video in Windows desktop browsers
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/best-flash-player-for-for-real-time-axis-video-in-windows-desktop-browsers/49641
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/best-flash-player-for-for-real-time-axis-video-in-windows-desktop-browsers/49641 "2017-09-07T05:03:51Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Barham](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Barham)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/best-flash-player-for-for-real-time-axis-video-in-windows-desktop-browsers/49641/1 "2017-09-07T05:03:51Z")
I want to play realtime video from Axis cameras in a web application in modern Windows desktop browsers (e.g., IE 11+, Edge, Chrome, Firefox).
I’ve installed Streaming Engine 4.7.1 and successfully connected it to my test Axis camera. I can view the camera’s video in the Wowza Player but latency at 30+ seconds is unacceptably slow. My main requirement for the video is low latency. I don’t care much about quality or resolution but responsiveness is essential as the web app controls the camera via PTZ so we want as close to real-time feedback as possible. Also, bandwidth isn’t really a concern as typically each Axis camera in our system has at most one live stream.
Reading various docs it seems that until WebRTC is widely supported, using a Flash player with RTSP/RTMP is the only current viable option to get low latency video from Wowza. Assuming this is correct, what Flash players do folks recommend for playing RTSP/RTMP video from Streaming Engine in Windows desktop browsers? The player should also be JavaScript controllable so the camera video window can be created/destroyed problematically.
Thanks, John
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### Author:  [@John\_Barham](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Barham)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/best-flash-player-for-for-real-time-axis-video-in-windows-desktop-browsers/49641/2 "2017-09-08T07:06:40Z")
To answer my own question, I’m using Flowplayer to play Flash RTMP streams and am getting sub-second latencies playing RTSP streams from Streaming Engine.
Somewhat off topic, it seems somewhat odd that the browser vendors are trying so hard to kill off Flash/RTMP video before there are mature, widely supported HTML5 alternatives for playing low-latency video. WebRTC is supposedly the replacement but it seems awfully complex and browser support is immature and uneven…