I'm building a web app that should play back an RTSP/RTP stream from a server http://lscube.org/projects/feng.
Does the HTML5 video/audio tag support the rtsp or rtp? If not, what would the easiest solution be? Perhaps drop down to a VLC plugin or something like that.
Best Answer
Technically 'Yes'
(but not really...)
HTML 5's
<video>
tag is protocol agnostic—it does not care. You place the protocol in thesrc
attribute as part of the URL. E.g.:or maybe
That said, the implementation of the
<video>
tag is browser specific. Since it is early days for HTML 5, I expect frequently changing support (or lack of support).From the W3C's HTML5 spec (The video element):