according to this post I am trying to display an H.264 live stream from an ip camera (AXIS M1145-L + CamStreamer plugin) on a webpage without using any external browser plugins (only pure HTML5) and for desktop.
As I`ve read there it is possible to do it with video.js and HLS, so this is what I have tried:
Stream from camera (push to rtmp with CamStreamer) --> to nginx (rtmp module) -->
nginx serves HLS --> display with video.js and videojs-hls plugin in browser
While watching the stream within VLC using it`s hls URL (http://192.168.1.105:8080/hls/movie.m3u8) I do not have any problems or lags but I can not get it to work in the browser with video.js.
It always reports me invalid media.
stream in vlc + codec info: http://s8.postimg.org/vb63fgfwh/codec.png
my nginx config: http://pastebin.com/9GuAMuBx
html source code: http://pastebin.com/QGmEamjT
output in chrome: http://s8.postimg.org/dwlv76irl/error_html.png
The original stream is pushed to: rtmp://192.168.1.105:1935/hls/movie
192.168.1.105 is the machine where nginx is running.
The Hls stream then is accesible on http://192.168.1.105:8080/hls/movie.m3u8
What I totally want to avoid is the need of re-encoding the video as the machine on where it will run later does not have the power to do it and it will be a full hd stream too. This is why I have abandoned FFmpeg (needed to re-encode Mp4 for Live-Streaming). Also the machine will not have continous internet access, so online transcoding also isn`t possible.
Please help. Thank you !
Finally got it.
Using hls.js library (https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js) standalone without video.js did the trick. The video is now playing fine in Chrome/Opera on Windows 7. Did not yet try it with others.
So I guess it`s a player/codec dependend problem of video.js.
The html page with the player needs to be on a server (NOT local filesystem!) otherwise browser safety restrictions will come in place which prevents the video from playing. Noticed that while trying from a local html page in browser while hls.js demo worked with same stream.
Thank you for your tips !
