livestream.md

Livestream playback

You need to provide a livestream URL in MediaDataSource and indicates isLive: true.

Sample HTTP FLV source:

{
    // HTTP FLV
    "type": "flv",
    "isLive": true,
    "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/live/livestream.flv"
}

Or a WebSocket source:

{
    // FLV over WebSocket
    "type": "flv",
    "isLive": true,
    "url": "ws://127.0.0.1:9090/live/livestream.flv"
}

HTTP FLV live stream

CORS

You must configure Access-Control-Allow-Origin header correctly on your stream server.

See cors.md for details.

Compatibility

Due to IO restrictions, flv.js can support HTTP FLV live stream on Chrome 43+ and FireFox 42+ for now.

HTTP FLV live stream relies on stream IO, which has been introduced in fetch and stream spec. but FetchStreamLoader only works well on a few browsers for now:

• Chrome: FetchStreamLoader works well on Chrome 43+
• FireFox: FireFox has fetch support but stream is missing, moz-chunked-arraybuffer xhr extension is used
• Edge: fetch + stream is broken on Microsoft Edge, see Fetch API with ReadableStream has bug with data pumping
• Safari: fetch has not been supported on current version 10, but available in Safari Technology Preview