# Live streaming with HTML 5
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [March 2, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564 "2010-03-02T14:50:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ari\_Amiri](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ari_Amiri)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/1 "2010-03-02T14:50:25Z")
I’m using wowza media server 2 to stream a live video feed to a custom flash player. The way the winds are blowing, it appears that flash maybe deprecated by HTML 5. Does wowza support streaming to a webpage using the html 5 tag? what do i need to achieve this
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Dobrushin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_Dobrushin)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/2 "2010-03-02T12:31:59Z")
It may be a bit premature to say that Flash will be depreciated… There are still a lot of unresolved issues with HTML5 - most notably a standardized choice of codecs and universal cross-browser support. However, Wowza Media Server today supports Apple HTML Live Streaming that plays directly in a Safari browser on the iPhone/iPod Touch and on Snow Leopard using HTML5 video tag. We’re following HTML5 closely and plan to introduce broader support as appropriate.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Dobrushin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_Dobrushin)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/3 "2010-04-05T17:06:22Z")
Excellent. If anyone wants to see a live demo with an iPad, visit us at the NAB Show next week in Las Vegas. Wowza is at booth #SU9310.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/4 "2010-03-03T04:17:47Z")
The only HTML5 streaming we support is what is described above by **Dobrushin**. There is just too much fragmentation between the browser capabilities at this time to do anything more comprehensive in a reasonable way.
Charlie
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/5 "2010-03-09T14:18:29Z")
Because the Chrome browser does not support any of the forms of streaming that Wowza supports (Adobe RTMP, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Apple HTTP Live Streaming, RTSP/RTP). I believe they only support progressive download.
Charlie
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### Author:  [@gabriel\_fg](https://community.wowza.com/u/gabriel_fg)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/6 "2010-09-19T12:52:21Z")
hi there
i just tryed this and it didn"t work, despite i didn’t had error messages on the server…anyway i’m sure it can work, and i’m sure lot of people would like their flash player to stream directly to ipod, not possible because of h264 and audio codecs used ny flash player. It seems possible to re-encode on the fly flash streams into h264 using ffmpeg and x264. Infos can be found at the following link: [http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful-stuff/ffmpeg-x264-encoding-guide/](http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful-stuff/ffmpeg-x264-encoding-guide/)
i’ll work on this and tell you what’s going on. But now we almost get html 5 to play our live streams, my wonder is how to connect to remote sharedObjects using html 5…is it possible ? does someone has informations about that ? thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@gabriel\_fg](https://community.wowza.com/u/gabriel_fg)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/7 "2010-09-20T05:30:48Z")
hi richard thanks for your reply.
So i think it is impossible to dev an iphone app using sharedObject, or does xcode provide this possibility ? If not, i am wondering about the iphone: is it really useless ? :D:mad:😕
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/8 "2010-03-05T18:19:42Z")
It’s only used on the IPhone Safari browser, not web page.
Look at this post for live streaming, includes IPhone:
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder)
And this post for vod streaming, also includes IPhone
[http://community.wowza.com/t/-/64](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/64)
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/9 "2010-06-16T14:29:33Z")
Use the live tutorial, the IPhone steps. This will work on HTML5 on Safari on IPhone, IPod Touch, IPad, and Mac’s running Snow Leopard.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/10 "2010-06-16T14:49:16Z")
Here you go:
```auto
Your Video
```
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/11 "2010-06-16T14:52:55Z")
Yes, but if it doesn’t, taking out your custom module and trying it without should be your first trouble-shooting step.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/12 "2010-06-16T19:13:50Z")
I have an IPhone 3gs (with latest OS) and it opens the quicktime player.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/13 "2010-06-17T14:03:49Z")
It should, sure.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/14 "2010-09-19T14:33:12Z")
SharedObjects won’t work with html5. You need Flash application.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/15 "2011-05-12T16:33:37Z")
Take a look at the ffmpeg and Expression 4 examples for good encoding references:
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-video-on-demand-content](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-video-on-demand-content)
FMLE records f4v locally that is fragmented. Wowza should be able to play those, but there is a tool from Adobe for flattening fragmented f4v that might help.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/16 "2011-06-06T16:33:35Z")
Wowza produces the playlist.m3u8, it only exists in memory and is delivered to iOS clients. You just need to encode and configure for Cupertino streaming.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/17 "2013-02-12T00:56:15Z")
There is not any time frame or news about these future feautures at present.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Kelly\_Rinne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kelly_Rinne)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/18 "2011-05-12T15:58:35Z")
If it helps, I have successfully used mv4 for rebroadcast and VOD,and f4v for live.
haven’t tested iPad yet but plan to soon!
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### Author:  [@Kelly\_Rinne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kelly_Rinne)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/19 "2011-06-06T16:29:41Z")
what goes in the playlist for iPad/iPhone support?
Example provide by Wowza Ref Guide:
http://[wowza-address]:1935/live/myStream.sdp/playlist.m3u8
This article does not explain how the playlist.m3u8 is to be configured - how do I tell it what file to play?
Article:
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder)
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### Author:  [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-with-html-5/33564/20 "2011-01-21T12:24:04Z")
The only significant difference between M4V and F4V is whether it’s a Flash or a QuickTime container. Inside, it’s all H.264/AAC (AVC).
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