IP Cam (RTSP) Stream transcoded with wowza and embeded in a website.

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi Everybody

I am having problems configuring following case:

My Customer would like to have his Surveillance Cameras embeded to a Website. The webpage and the livestreams should be accessible by any Device and Browser without using plugins.

I have tried following:

Incoming Stream is: rtsp://172.17.27.62/media/video1 (Sony Ipela CH140)

Transcoding: Transrate (Default)

source mp4:${SourceStreamName}_source

720p mp4:${SourceStreamName}_720p

360p mp4:${SourceStreamName}_360p

240p mp4:${SourceStreamName}_240p

160p mp4:${SourceStreamName}_160p

I can watch the streams without problems in wowza test players. I see that they are being watched with flash player.

I try to embed the transcoded streams with following html5 code on my local xampp (apache):

Play/Pause

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Play/Pause

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Play/Pause

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none of them work in latest chrome browser.

Can I configure the wowza transcoding in to mp4 supported format in html5?

What would be the next steps to reach my goal?

Regards Mathias

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Hi Mathias,

Many older browsers do not support HTML5, so you could have issues with the above code working properly on older client connections.

You may want to consider using player software, such as JWPlayer, to achieve better cross-platform reliability. When combined with Wowza Streaming Engine, these players will detect incoming client capabilities and select the best video format for each client connection.

Please reference the following article on how to configure JWPlayer for use with Wowza Streaming Engine.

Best regards,

Andrew