hazcod / Gunther

Easy web frontend for media streaming - Fork me! (NO LONGER MAINTAINED)
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Browser HTML5 codec support sucks #2

Closed hazcod closed 9 years ago

hazcod commented 9 years ago

~ brainstorm here

hazcod commented 9 years ago

Possible fix; VLC plugin

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin/#Introduction:_Building_Web_pages_with_Video

Drawbacks; plugin to be installed

hazcod commented 9 years ago

Possible fix; just return raw stream and let browser handle it. Drawbacks; no external subtitle support (?)

hazcod commented 9 years ago

Stayed with VideoJS. Forced it to video/mp4, try our best approach. Only external subtitles, no internal sadly.