Play live streaming on non-native HLS browsers.

Question

Play live streaming on non-native HLS browsers.

mccorry opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Hello unbelievable team of programmers. 😄

What would be the way to play live streaming for example in firefox that does not have native hls support?

Tom Sadler · Answer 1 · Fri Oct 12 2018 22:01:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @mccorry, TAL's media player does not add support for any streaming technologies I'm afraid. It provides a abstraction for HTML5, CE-HTML, and Samsung media players, and makes using them a bit more robust, but it's up the underlying player to support the media.

You could in theory use Media Source Extensions to add HLS support (https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js is one example), but I believe there are licensing implications if you provide HLS decoding (this article seems to explain it).