html5 video tags vod play portion or part of video

Wowza Streaming Engine
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I am trying to use Wowza to do a simple html5 VOD.

I can successfully play VOD through VLC using this url.

rtsp://ec2-50-18-232-9.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:1935/vods3/definst/mp4:amazons3/linkedbingo/video/sample.mp4

I have encoded three different flavors of my video and placed them in my S3 bucket. I can play those files using HTML5 with the following simple code:

I searched far and wide and tried different things but I can’t figure how to reference those files through the Wowza Server. Will Wowza 2 work or does it have to be 3?

In the end I need to play only a portion of these files. I figured I would use something like the example below.

http://[wowza-ip-address]:1935/vod/mp4:sample.mp4/Manifest?wowzaplaystart=30000&wowzaplayduration=40000 (It seems I might need to use Wowza 3 for this part.

So how do I reference my files using HTML5 tag through Wowza and can I use something like above to only play a portion of these files? If I had a 90 minute video and only wanted to play the last 5 minutes would the entire video have to download before the last 5 minutes was available?

thanks in advance ~

Craig

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Craig,

Wowza only supports HTML5 video tag with cupertinostreaming in iOS devices, and Safari on Mac OSX. No other type of stream or platform/browser is supported at this time.

The ogg and webm files are not supported at present.

Richard

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John,

Not yet, no.

Richard

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Hi

Is there any update to this, one year on?

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Hi. Sorry just to clarify this. My ignorance will show up again. I’m reading html5 supports flash video with the following: <video id=“default_video” class=“video-js vjs-default…” <source type=“video/mp4”

I’m just confused…why can’t this be supported. What is the issue with mp4?