# HTML5 player for Windows

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-player-for-windows/46287>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices\
**Created:** [November 27, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-player-for-windows/46287 "2015-11-27T11:18:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Hall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@Peter\_Hall](https://community.wowza.com/u/Peter_Hall)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-player-for-windows/46287/1 "2015-11-27T11:18:10Z")

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Hi,

We currently use a customised version of the OSMF Strobe Media Player that delivers both HLS and HDS streams to browsers on Windows, OSX, Android, i-Phone and i-Pad. The player works by trying HLS first and then falling back to HDS (Flash) if HLS doesn’t work.

We would like to move away from the use of Flash and use HTML 5 instead since all the major Windows browsers now support HTML 5, but the Wowza documentation says that HTML 5 is only supported via HLS on OSX and Safari browser. Is there any plan to support HTML 5 in IE, Firefox, Chrome or Opera on Windows OS?

Regards

Peter

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 8:11am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-player-for-windows/46287/2 "2015-11-27T08:11:51Z")

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Please review this guide:

[How to play video using the HTML5 video tag](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-play-video-using-the-html5-video-tag)

It contains the most recent information in regards to streaming with HTML5.

Here is a useful HTML5 reference:

[State of HTML5 Report](http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/)

Regards,

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![alan\_costello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alan\_costello](https://community.wowza.com/u/alan_costello)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 11:42am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-player-for-windows/46287/3 "2015-12-23T11:42:02Z")

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> Please review this guide:
> 
> How to play video using the HTML5 video tag
> 
> It contains the most recent information in regards to streaming with HTML5.
> 
> Here is a useful HTML5 reference:
> 
> [State of HTML5 Report](http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Salvadore

I think the link to “How to play video using the HTML5 video tag” is missing.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 7:02am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/html5-player-for-windows/46287/4 "2015-12-23T07:02:18Z")

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Thanks Alan, I have updated my post to include the link.

Salvadore