Streaming via RTSP or RTP in HTML5

Question

I'm building a web app that should play back an RTSP/RTP stream from a server (http://lscube.org/projects/feng).

Does the HTML5 video/audio tag support the rtsp or rtp? If not, what would the easiest solution be? Perhaps drop down to a VLC plugin or something like that.

Answer 1

Yes (but...)

HTML 5's <video> tag is protocol agnostic—it does not care. You place the protocol in the src attribute as part of the URL. E.g.:

<video src="rtp://myserver.com/path/to/stream">
    Your browser does not support the VIDEO tag and/or RTP streams.
</video>

or maybe

<video src="http://myserver.com:1935/path/to/stream/myPlaylist.m3u8"&gt;
    Your browser does not support the VIDEO tag and/or RTP streams.
</video>

That said, the implementation of the <video> tag is browser specific. Since it is early days for HTML 5, I expect frequently changing support (or lack of support).

Answer 2

Are you short that HTML5 support RTSP? I'm tryng to do something like that but I'm not being able to get sucess results.

thanks

Answer 3

My observations regarding the HTML 5 video tag and rtsp(rtp) streams are, that it only works with konqueror(KDE 4.4.1, Phonon-backend set to GStreamer). I got only video (no audio) with a H.264/AAC RTSP(RTP) stream.

The streams from http://media.esof2010.org/ didn't work with konqueror(KDE 4.4.1, Phonon-backend set to GStreamer).