Replacing media source (http with rtmp) in MediaElementsJS based on browser capabilities

Question

First of all, in case John Dyer is reading this, thanks a lot for your player, it\'s fantastic! :-)

And now, to my problem. I\'m trying to provide an MP4 video using HT

Answer 1

I've just found the answer to my own question through Github issue tracker for MediaElementJS:

https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/issues/337

The trick is adding "mp4:" before the name of the media file in the URL. So, in my example, the last lines would be:

if (media.pluginType != 'native') {
    media.setSrc('rtmp://localhost/mp4:video1.mp4'); // NOTE the "mp4:" prefix
    media.load();
    media.play();
}

It works for us on Flash Media Server 3.5. :-)