[jaitsu]

Great article. I think we can actually talk about flash being replaced now that we have a real solution for HTML5 live streaming. Flash was never going to go away until there was something that could handle the DRM across all browsers.

I've worked a lot with Ooyala's live streams and was just looking at moving a client over to their HTML5 offering. They claim to offer it in all browsers but that is probably with a flash fallback, they haven't open sourced their JS (or at least I can't see it on their GitHub page).

We also use StreamUK on a lot of sites (but I've never used it directly) and from what I have heard they have great support for HLS. They have no GitHub presence so not quite sure if they're using the same libs the article mentioned or something proprietary.

Obviously DRM would still be an issue unless the browser natively supports EME.

[voltagex_]

>All tests were done on Intel Corei7-4810MQ machine.

I think we'd have to see 60fps on a Chromebook or similar low-cost machine before we declared the end of Flash streaming.

[shacharz]

I agree we should do tests on low-cost machines as well. But at least on my machine the js libraries performed better than the Flash ones. So moving to flash-less should improve performance.

[mentando]

Yeah. My Chromebook cannot handle 720p60 on Youtube, but it is a rather low power one with its Celeron N2840.

[alexduros]

> Obviously DRM would still be an issue unless the browser natively supports EME.

Actually, with HLS, DRM is an issue on browsers since HLS is not designed to work with EME spec.

By the way, some open source players like https://github.com/canalplus/rx-player implements EME spec to work with DRM, Smooth Streaming Format or MPEG DASH format, that are compatible with the common encryption model.