Streaming via RTSP or RTP in HTML5

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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

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With VLC i m able to transcode a live RTSP stream  mpeg4  to an HTTP stream in a OGG format  Vorbis Theora   The quality is poor but the video work in Chrome 9  I have also tested with a trancoding in WEBM  VP8  but it s don t seem to work  VLC have the option but i don t know if it s really implemented for now     The first to have a doc on this should notify us

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Technically  Yes   but not really     HTML 5 s  lt video gt  tag is protocol agnostic   it does not care   You place the protocol in the src attribute as part of the URL   E g    lt video src  quot rtp   myserver com path to stream quot  gt      Your browser does not support the VIDEO tag and or RTP streams   lt  video gt   or maybe  lt video src  quot http   myserver com 1935 path to stream myPlaylist m3u8 quot  gt      Your browser does not support the VIDEO tag and or RTP streams   lt  video gt   That said  the implementation of the   lt video gt  tag is browser specific   Since it is early days for HTML 5  I expect frequently changing support  or lack of support   From the W3C s HTML5 spec  The video element    User agents may support any video and audio codecs and container formats

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Chrome not implement support RTSP streaming  An important project to check it  WebRTC    WebRTC is a free  open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications  RTC  capabilities via simple APIs   Supported Browsers   Chrome  Firefox and Opera   Supported Mobile Platforms   Android and IOS  http   www webrtc org

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The spirit of the question  I think  was not truly answered  No  you cannot use a video tag to play rtsp streams as of now  The other answer regarding the link to Chromium guy s  never  is a bit misleading as the linked thread   answer is not directly referring to Chrome playing rtsp via the video tag  Read the entire linked thread  especially the comments at the very bottom and links to other threads   The real answer is this  No  you cannot just put a video tag on an html 5 page and play rtsp  You need to use a Javascript library of some sort  unless you want to get into playing things with flash and silverlight players  to play streaming video   IMHO  At the rate the html 5 video discussion and implementation is going  the various vendors of proprietary video standards are not interested in helping this move forward so don t count of the promised ease of use of the video tag unless the browser makers take it upon themselves to somehow solve the problem   again  not likely   IMHO

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This is an old qustion  but I had to do it myself recently and I achieved something working so  besides response like mine would save me some time   Basically use ffmpeg to change the container to HLS  most of the IPCams stream h264 and some basic type of PCM  so use something like that   ffmpeg -v info -i rtsp   ip port h264 sdp -c v copy -c a copy -bufsize 1835k -pix fmt yuv420p -flags -global header -hls time 10 -hls list size 6 -hls wrap 10 -start number 1  var www html test m3u8   Then use video js with HLS plugin This will play Live stream nicely There is also a jsfiddle example under second link    Note  although this is not a native support it doesn t require anything extra on user frontend

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There are three streaming protocols   technology in HTML5   Live streaming  low latency - WebRTC - Websocket  VOD and Live streaming  high latency - HLS  1  WebRTC  In fact WebRTC is SRTP secure RTP protocol   Thus we can say that video tag supports RTP SRTP  indirectly via WebRTC   Therefore to get RTP stream on your Chrome  Firefox or another HTML5 browser  you need a WebRTC server which will deliver the SRTP stream to browser   2  Websocket  It is TCP based  but with lower latency than HLS  Again you need a Websocket server   3  HLS  Most popular high-latency streaming protocol for VOD pre-recorded video

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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

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Chrome will never implement support RTSP streaming   At least  in the words of a Chromium developer here       we re never going to add support for this

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