mediaelement.js - RTMP support for audio streaming?

Question

Is there currently any support for streaming audio via RTMP using either native HTML5 or Flash fallback with MediaElement? I saw what looked like support for Video using the flashStreamer option in the video tag 'data-mejsoptions' attribute.

Answer 1

I know your question is a year old but I'm going to try and answer it in the hope I can save someone the time and trouble of figuring it out.

As far as I'm aware RTMP is not supported in any of the native HTML5 audio/video elements.

Luckily mediaelement.js seems to support this protocol in here Flash version

It seems this protocol is used more commonly for videos. That is why you'll have to provide a few extra arguments to make a RTMP stream work.

Here is how I got a RTMP audio stream working with mediaelement.js:

JavaScript:

$('video,audio').mediaelementplayer({
    audioWidth: 500,
    features: ['playpause','current', 'progress', 'volume'],
    pluginVars: 'isvideo=true',
    //Example rtmp://my-streaming-service.com/specific-stream
    flashStreamer: "rtmp://<base-url+path>",
    mode:'shim'
});

HTML:

<audio preload="none" controls="controls">
    <!-- Example rtmp://my-streaming-service.com/specific-stream/64.stream -->
    <source src="rtmp://<base-url+path>/<filename>" type="video/mp4"> 
</audio>