# Where to start writing my own player

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/where-to-start-writing-my-own-player/43163>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 3, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/where-to-start-writing-my-own-player/43163 "2014-06-03T16:48:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jon\_Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jon\_Glazer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jon_Glazer)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/where-to-start-writing-my-own-player/43163/1 "2014-06-03T16:48:40Z")

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I’ve written players (non-streaming) in flash but now I want to work with Wowza and write a player(s) that is compatible with IE, Chrome, iOS (opera/safari) and others.

Does anyone have any pointers where to start? I thought I would just write a single HTML5 player but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

Thanks for the help!

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**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:** [June 4, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/where-to-start-writing-my-own-player/43163/2 "2014-06-04T13:04:30Z")

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Hi,

The /examples folder where Wowza is installed has a number of players (live and vod players using Flash RTMP/HDS and Silverlight) that include source code. If you are partial to Flex, here are several examples you can use as a starting place:

[http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/LiveVideoStreaming.zip](http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/LiveVideoStreaming.zip)

[http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/SimpleVideoStreaming.zip](http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/SimpleVideoStreaming.zip)

[http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/VideoChat.zip](http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/VideoChat.zip)

[http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/VideoRecording.zip](http://wowza.com/downloads/examples/flex/VideoRecording.zip)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/where-to-start-writing-my-own-player/43163/3 "2014-06-27T20:43:52Z")

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Hi,

Embedded web based solutions are very limited. The only player you can embed in a browser on iOS is the native player

on an HTML5 page, using the video tag.

While this works reasonably well on the iPad, the iPhone and other similar sized iOS devices are a different story.

When tapping on the embedded player, playback starts on those devices by launching the fully fledged native player,

in full-screen.

Daren

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**Author:** ![Jon\_Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jon\_Glazer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jon_Glazer)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/where-to-start-writing-my-own-player/43163/4 "2014-06-27T19:50:44Z")

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Ok I am re-visiting this. Those seem to be windows based solutions. I need one for iPhone/iPad. I would like to build a web based player that works on these devices (like the flash ones work on windows devices).

Thanks!