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Chrome and IE11 won't play HTML5 video. Always Flash


I have a self hosted player setup with Wowza steaming engine. No matter what I do I cannot get latest version of Chrome or IE11 to use HTML5. It always wants to use flash

Here is my setup.

<script>
jwplayer("player").setup({

sources: [{

file: "http://192.168.200.20:1935/videoswebdev/file.mp4/playlist.m3u8"

},{

file: "rtmp://192.168.200.20:1935/videoswebdev/file.mp4"
},{

file: "rtsp://192.168.200.20:1935/videoswebdev/file.mp4>"




}],
width:"640",
height:"480",
image: "/thumbnails/<?php print "$video_thumbnail"; ?>",
controls: true,
autostart: false,
hlshtml: true,
primary: "html5",
muted: false

});
</script>

7 Community Answers

Alex

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Hi there,

None of your streams are playing for me. Are they live?

If a HLS stream is your primary source, it should play in Chrome in HTML5 just fine, so I would need to see a reproduction page with the streams up and running in order to find out why it wouldn’t be. Your setup code looks fine.

IE 11 does not support playback of HLS in HTML5 so it is expected for it to use Flash in that case.

Thank you.

Stan Sawyer

User  
0 rated :

Sorry about the internal IP. Try these.

file: "http://danville.live:1935/videoswebdev/file.mp4/playlist.m3u8"

},{

file: "rtmp://danville.live:1935/videoswebdev/file.mp4"
},{

file: "rtsp://danville.live:1935/videoswebdev/file.mp4>"

It plays in some chrome browsers and not in others. same version, same OS. Windows

Stan Sawyer

User  
0 rated :

Here is a test page you requested.

http://web1.danvilleva.gov/osprey/jwtest.html

Stan Sawyer

User  
0 rated :

Scratch the sentence in previous post. "It plays in some chrome browsers and not in others. same version, same OS. Windows" It never plays HTML in chrome as stated earlier.

Alex

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Hi there,

The license key you are using on that page is for a Free account. Playback of HLS streams requires a Premium account, or higher. Because of this, the player is skipping over the HLS source and playing the RTMP source in Flash.

Thank you.

Stan Sawyer

User  
0 rated :

Got it. Berating my head against wall over here. I purchased a prem license. thanks.

Alex

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Not a problem!

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