Is it possible to play HTTP Live Streaming video within Flash platform designed for iOS? (.m3u8 playlist)

Question

We\'re using HTTP live streaming service designed for Apple\'s iOS devices. It\'s working well with iOS devices currently.

Source video fragments are stored in serve

Answer 1

there is also a free HLS Plugin/Player available here: https://github.com/mangui/flashls it works fine with FlowPlayer, OSMF Based Player (GrindPlayer/Strobe Media Playback), MediaElement.js and video.js. it also provides an AS3 library to easily write custom flash player supporting HLS playback

Answer 2

Check out hls.js, a javascript player that uses HTML5 video and Media Source Extensions (MSE) to do HLS playback without Flash.

MSE is only supported on modern browsers though (Chrome 34+, Firefox 38+ (with media.mediasource.whitelist=false in about:config), and IE11+), so it won't work everywhere. The Flowplayer hls.js plugin uses it when possible and falls back to Flash otherwise.

See the hls.js github repo and their public demo for more.

hls.js works by transmuxing MPEG-2 Transport Stream into ISO BMFF (MP4) fragments. this transmuxing could be performed asynchronously using Web Worker if available in the browser. hls.js does not need any player, it works directly on top of a standard HTMLelement.

Answer 3

Yes, it's possible with a free plugin for Flowplayer Flash. I did it myself and explained it in my blog post.

Answer 4

FFMpeg can do the conversion to a mp4 format for you on the fly, and Wowza or Red5 can handle the cross streaming to multiple devices.

Wowza and Red5 have lots of documentations and examples for simple flash streaming setups.

Answer 5

The latest version of JWPlayer (version 6) supports playing HLS streams in Flash for desktop machines, and in HTML5 mode for iOS. Relevant links:

• http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/hls-rtmp-live-streaming/
• http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/29393/hls-adaptive-stream/
• http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28856/using-apple-hls-streaming/

If anyone knows other players which support playing HLS streams in flash, please let me know.

Update: Found few non-free solutions to play HLS in flash:

http://www.uplynk.com/

http://onlinelib.de/ (have separate licensed plugin for SMP)

http://www.unified-streaming.com/

Another One: http://flowplayer.electroteque.org/httpstreaminghls

Answer 6

There's a video.js plugin available that does HLS quite nice: https://github.com/videojs/videojs-contrib-hls