# how to play video or live streams on web page for android webkit **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [November 22, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-video-or-live-streams-on-web-page-for-android-webkit/35732 "2010-11-22T17:44:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bin\_ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@bin\_ren](https://community.wowza.com/u/bin_ren)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-video-or-live-streams-on-web-page-for-android-webkit/35732/1 "2010-11-22T17:44:07Z")
hi, i am new to media stream and wowza media server. i have a web application which is browsed by webkit on android phones, i wanna play some video or live streams from wowza media server on one of the web page of the app. Or the way may be similar to qik or [justin.tv](http://justin.tv) on android phones. If anyone has done similar projects, would u pls tell how to do it? thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@Andrew\_Kennedy](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-video-or-live-streams-on-web-page-for-android-webkit/35732/2 "2010-11-22T01:56:38Z")
See this thread of someone describing it working > [@Android adventures](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/35419): > > I have installed the AAC plugin into my FMLE machine and am now encoding streams that I think should be compatible with Android and Blackberry devices. I can view the stream via VLC on my Linux machine using RTSP, but so far no-go on Android. The stream is visible at rtsp://184.73.200.27:1935/iphone/teststream.stream, or at [http://catfolks.net/video/m2.html](http://catfolks.net/video/m2.html). I’m currently encoding h.264 Baseline, level 3.0, 15 fps, 320x240, 200 Kbps video, AAC stereo, 44100 Hz, 96 Kbps. My Android device is a… In summary I think you need to use H264 video and AAC+ audio for it to work, so this would be for VOD and Live. Shamrock ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-video-or-live-streams-on-web-page-for-android-webkit/35732/3 "2010-11-29T14:25:46Z")
I’m not sure about RTSP and HTML5 video tag. Take a look at the Mobile Troubleshooting guide: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback) See step #3 of this guide for setting up Wowza application for RTSP streaming. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-video-or-live-streams-on-web-page-for-android-webkit/35732/4 "2010-11-22T21:00:03Z")
On recent versions of Android, you should be able to use the HTML5 Video Tag with an RTSP source. [http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag\_video.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp) ---
**Author:** ![bin\_ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@bin\_ren](https://community.wowza.com/u/bin_ren)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-video-or-live-streams-on-web-page-for-android-webkit/35732/5 "2010-11-29T16:12:42Z")
> On recent versions of Android, you should be able to use the HTML5 Video Tag with an RTSP source. > > [http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag\_video.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp) i tried to user the ‘’ tag to play video streaming, but it didn’t work on the webkit of android 2.1 and even android 2.2. what’s the problem i hv? Should i install a particular video player on the android mobile device?