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by simlevesque 2156 days ago
HLS is half of the answer, that will only work of half of all devices. You need HLS + MPEG-DASH.
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guu 2156 days ago
For browsers that do not support HLS you can use a JavaScript HLS client implementation[0] using Media Source Extensions[1].

[0]: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Sourc...

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simlevesque 2155 days ago
Isn't this super battery intensive?
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joshmn 2156 days ago
I can't think of a device that would support MPEG-DASH that wouldn't support HLS. What are some? HLS has been around for a decade.

I think you're thinking of certain DRM mechanisms. HLS with FairPlay wouldn't work on an Android device running Chrome, just as iOS Safari doesn't support Widevine. But for most of us, we don't need DRM.

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simlevesque 2156 days ago
What? that's the opposite of the truth.

Firefox, Chrome, Edge, IE, do not support HLS.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=http-live-streaming

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joshmn 2155 days ago
Sorry, I didn't think we were talking about native support. I'm just so used to shipping something like videojs.

In any event, nothing natively supports MPEG-DASH. https://caniuse.com/#feat=mpeg-dash Though there is a disclaimer "DASH can be used with a JavaScript library in browsers that doesn't support it natively as long as they support Media Source Extensions." the same is true for HLS, without the requirement of MSEs.

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