- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:29:04 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chytanya Karusala wrote: > > I thought the video tag in HTML5 will point to a media resource which > will be downloaded by the browser and passed on to the player engine > inside the browser. If the src tag points to rtsp link the > browser/player engine wouldn't know how to handle. By including the rtsp > URI support in the video tag, player engine within every browser would > act as a rtsp client making better streaming solutions possible (viz.. > live streaming- in addition to download/progressive download already > made possible by video tag) Ah, I see. The HTML5 spec doesn't say what transports are expected to be supported; there's no reason browsers couldn't support RTSP as well as HTTP. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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