[Discuss] live streaming needs flash?

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 21:53:31 EDT 2015


On 7/27/2015 9:41 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
> YouTube live events do not require a plugin to watch; they use HTML5
> streaming if available. And there is an option to use a Google Hangout
> as the stream source, and I believe that also does not require a
> plugin if you stream from Chrome. Otherwise you need Flash to source a
> live stream.

With the caveat that "in a web browser" is a bullet item on the 
PowerPoint slides. Remove that requirement and you gain access to many 
options that work at least as well as Flash if not better (like H.323).

-- 
Rich P.



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