Which players support Apple HLS streams in Flash and DVR Live Streaming?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Which players supoprt:

a) Apple HLS streams in Flash

b) DVR Live Streaming

I see that JW Player 6 Premium supports Apple HLS streams in Flash and that JW Player 6 also support DVR Live Streaming.

Any alternatives to JW Player?

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I guess only JW Player 6 Premium does then.

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We looked into this, you will need the Enterprise (ads) license for JW Player 6 for DVR playback. The Premium version supports HLS playback on the desktop and iOS devices, and it will playback a DVR stream (using ?DVR in playback url), but the DVR controls are not displayed, so only live view is available.

Richard

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JW Player 6 is the only option I am aware of that will do HLS to desktop browsers. But you can do DVR with smooth streams using a Silverlight player on the desktop.

The Expression 4 Encoder has players you can use and modify.

The SMF project is another source of players

And Wowza ships with DVR Silverlight example that includes player source.

Richard

5

We looked into this, you will need the Enterprise (ads) license for JW Player 6 for DVR playback. The Premium version supports HLS playback on the desktop and iOS devices, and it will playback a DVR stream (using ?DVR in playback url), but the DVR controls are not displayed, so only live view is available.

Richard

Any alternatives to JWPlayer 6?

6

http://osmfhls.kutu.ru/

this is a plugin for OSMF (StrobeMediaPlayback

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That’s not free though.

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I have not used it but you can have a look at

https://github.com/denivip/osmf-hls-plugin

You can test this plugin with StrobeMediaPlayer which is also based on osmf framework.

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https://github.com/mangui/flashls

This library is proven, it’s used in production by some big companies. It offers support for Flowplayer, JWplayer, and others.