mishaszu / streaming-video-demo

Streaming mpeg 4 video by node.js server.

streaming-video-demo

Streaming mpeg-4 video by node.js server.

Description

This repo is an example of using video streaming by backend and using stream on the client-side.

Streaming types

Native <video> html5 tag is capable of displaying a different kind of streams. In very basics (like in this repo example) it is capable of displaying video (formats supported by browser: firefox, chrome, another list of supported formats) that is divided into parts. If type attribute is not provided browser is trying to download a small chank to verify if the content is playable before it's ready to play (source).

Video tag might support src like:

<video src="rtsp://myhost.com/mymedia.format">
 <!-- Fallback here -->
</video>

as well as

<video src="http://myhost.com/mymedia.format">
 <!-- Fallback here -->
</video>

Website is also capable of support more streaming protocols like:

• HTTP
• RTMP
• RTSP 1.0 & 2.0

Another way to support streamed conntent on FE is using Media Source Extensions and for streaming p2p: WebRTC.

Also popular HTTP streaming formats:

• MPEG-DASH
• HLS

Other useful resources

• http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html