I'm developing a Video on Demand feature for a Django project of mine. It's going to be powered by Azure Media Services.
Currently, I'm trying to run an uploaded video via the following code:
<video id="azuremediaplayer" class="azuremediaplayer amp-default-skin amp-big-play-centered" controls autoplay width="640" height="400" poster="" data-setup='{"techOrder": ["azureHtml5JS", "flashSS", "silverlightSS", "html5"], "nativeControlsForTouch": false}'>
<source src="{{ video.streaming_url }}" type="video/mp4" />
<p class="amp-no-js">
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
</p>
</video>
where {{ video.streaming_url }} contains a streaming url of the sort http://example.streaming.mediaservices.windows.net/66193aae-b739-4cb5-b4b9-f4a4a151c791/myproject.ism/manifest.
My problem is that I get the error no compatible source found for the current browser environment (0x10600003). In fact, I get that error when I go to http://ampdemo.azureedge.net/azuremediaplayer.html as well (i.e. an official azure media player demo).
It seems the 0x10600003 error code implies Autoselect failed to find a player. Note that Youtube videos work perfectly in my environment. My OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and the browser is Mozilla Firefoz 41.0.1. A previous unaccepted answer guided the op to install and enable Silverlight. I can't expect all my users to do that. How do I get playback to work?
Azure Media Player is built on 4 different players, a DASH player, a Flash player, the Silverlight player, and the native implemented player for the browser you're watching the video on. These different "Player Techs" playback different protocols supported my Azure Media Services- DASH, Smooth, and HLS.
AMP intelligently decides which player/playback protocol to use for a specific/device or browser by looking at what technologies/features the browser supports. First, it'll check if the browser supports Media Source Extensions. MSE allows the browser to playback adaptive bitrate streams without the use of plugins like Flash and Silverlight, it's supported in most modern browsers, but not always in older versions of those browsers. If MSE is supported,AMP will playback your content using the MPEG-Dash protocol and you're good to go. If MSE isn't supported, AMP will check and see if Flash is installed and then if Silverlight is installed. If either of these are true it will play back using the installed plugin and the Smooth Streaming protocol. If neither of them are installed, it will try to play back via the native html5 video tag implementation of the browser. This is completely dependent on the browser, and most do not support ABR streams natively (except, for example, Safari via HLS)
Your short answer, given this background information, is that because you are using an older version of FF that does NOT support MSE, you need to install either Flash or Silverlight to play back your adaptive bitrate streams.
a few mitigations for you/customers:
1) install Flash/Silverlight
2) download an up-to-date version of FF, we recommend this for sure because MSE is supported in v42 but in v47+ Google Widevine protected content is supported, which means you can playback DRM encrypted content without Silverlight
see Azure Media Player's Compatibility Matrix for more info on what's supported on which browsers.
If you have any more questions, you can email me at ampinfo#microsoft.com, hope this helps!
I just knocked off the content policy and created a new one and it started working again.
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I have created a simple live stream using Azure Media Services. I can view it from Azure Media Player but I want to be able to embed the video to my personal website using the <Video></Video> HTML tag. I've been looking for a solution but I can't seem to find one. Is this even possible?
The HTML5 tag does not always support playback of HLS or DASH depending on the platform you are on.
https://caniuse.com/?search=hls
https://caniuse.com/?search=dash
Sounds like you are trying to playback HLS or DASH from Azure Media Services with just an HTML5 video tag and no javascript player framework. That won't work in most browsers.
Review https://howvideo.works/ for background on how HLS and DASH actually work in the browser - and the reason that you need access to a javascript library and the Media Source Extension feature of HTML5 (not always available in all browsers - see https://caniuse.com/mediasource)
Does anyone know, if any desktop browser has support of HTML Media Capture? Maybe beta versions, or with experimental flag, or dev build?
Or maybe there is a polyfill for this functionality using getUserMedia?
I need it for POC, so I'm interested in any easy solution/workaround.
HTML Media Capture API vs. getUserMedia() seems to point to a getUserMedia equivalent of HTML Media Capture for desktop browsers
I have a media services account with a streaming unit and I have been able to upload a video and dynamically package into various streams. I am trying to have a webpage with the streaming url to be able to serve cross platform iOS, android, desktop etc.. How do I go about it.
PS: I was able to create a page with videojs and progressive download. I am tring to explore the other option with Windows Azure.
Thanks for any help.
Azure Media Services has shipped Azure Media Player which could automatically detect the capability of your browser or device, and request the appropriate streaming format- for instance, it will grab MPEG-DASH stream with EME enabled browser, or HLS for iOS devices. You could give it a try: http://amsplayer.azurewebsites.net/azuremediaplayer.html. Please contact yanmf#microsoft if you want to get into Private Preview for this player. It will be free for use when we launch very soon.
Take a look at JW Player and the Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework. Both offer plenty of playback options for progressive and adaptive streaming to a wide range of browsers and devices.
For desktop : Use OSMF plugin - Adobe + Smooth streaming URL
For iOS : Use HTML5 Video tag+HLS v3 URL
For Android : Use HTML5 Video Tag+HLS v3 URL or Dash.JS with Mpegh Dash URL
For Windows Phone : Use Dash.js + Dash.JS URL
Hope this helps...
Update1:
Azure has came up with their own Media player for streaming which will take care of playing video in all the devices.
For Demo and Test - http://www.aka.ms/azuremediaplayer
For Documentaion - http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/15/announcing-azure-media-player/
The bitdash MPEG-DASH player works also out of the box for MPEG-DASH content, here you can see an example stream comming from Azure: http://www.dash-player.com/demo/streaming-server-encoder-support/?mpd=http%3A%2F%2Fsamplescdn.origin.mediaservices.windows.net%2Fe0e820ec-f6a2-4ea2-afe3-1eed4e06ab2c%2FAzureMediaServices_Overview.ism%2Fmanifest(format%3Dmpd-time-csf)&m3u8=undefined&autoplay=true&muted=false&usePoster=true
I was wondering if I can access the webcam via a browser plugin e.g. for Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer etc?
Are there already similar plugins/add-ons?
Thanks
It's possible to access the webcam through Flash, for instance.
An example of this is Omegle, which uses Flash to access the webcam.
An alternative is doing it in Silverlight, as in this example.
Finally, there's Java, in which you could write an applet to access the webcam. This article should demonstrate this.
If you wish to do it yourself, you will have to write the plugins yourself.
This can be done using the NPAPI for most browsers, or by writing a BHO (Browser Helper Object) for Internet Explorer.
How to interact with the webcam there depends on which language you choose, as you have full access to system libraries.
Note that writing a custom browser plugin is both harder, and a larger hassle for users, as they have to install something new, as opposed to just using their existing browser plugins.
I just found this:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/
One year and a half after this question was made. I haven't tested it, but maybe it'll help.
From the link (just a copy/paste showing how to record something using the camera as input source):
<input type="file" accept="video/*;capture=camcorder">
<input type="file" accept="audio/*;capture=microphone">
None of the major Webbrowser's (IE, FF, Chrome) provide any special support for Webcams. You will need to either use the native OS's API (whatever that may be), or embed Flash in Webbrowser control in your browser plug-in.
You can use Mediadevices.getUserMedia (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices/getUserMedia) to capture webcam stream on browser (chrome and firefox).
To play with webcam stream on safari, you would have to use a pollyfill - https://github.com/Temasys/AdapterJS
To record the video/audio stream, you can make use of Media recorder api https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecorder
(Note : recording stream is still a challenge in Safari as there is no support/pollyfill. However, it works perfectly on Chrome and Firefox latest versions).To make video recording work on Safari, it maybe worthwhile to explore https://github.com/ronghanghu/webcamjs (Note flash plugin needs to be installed and enabled)
Helpful demonstrations :
https://webrtc.github.io/samples/
https://mozdevs.github.io/MediaRecorder-examples/index.html
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/04/record-almost-everything-in-the-browser-with-mediarecorder/
What is the recommended (cross-browser) video format to use on websites so that users' browsers (or most of them) wouldn't require to download a plugin to view it?
There is no single video that will play in every browser. If you want it to work across the most browsers, you're going to have to encode your video more than once. Dive into HTML5 video has the gory details.
You nest your video references so that browsers try these in order, falling back if it's not supported:
Ogg Theora
MP4 H.264
A Flash container displaying #2
Number 1 gets you Firefox 3.5 and Chrome. Number 2 gets you Safari and the mobile phone WebKit browsers. Number 3 gets you IE, Firefox ≤3, and Opera.
There is no such format available yet. The best way to go is:
Flash (most of the users have flash plugin installed already, 99% according to http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/)
OGG (This will be available in HTML5 as standard)
Yes HTML5 will solve some of the problems of not needing a plugin, but different browser vendors have chosen different codecs and file formats. It's complicated, but Dive Into HTML 5 has a great article.
None! but you can do it with HTML 5 which is not implimented by all browsers ...
if you really need a video on your page i would recommend flash or silverlight
In a couple of months HTML 5 will be supported by almost all browsers on this planet. If you are planning to run your services in 2010 just use OGG open standard container format. It is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. It is already supported by Firefox 3.5 and soon all browsers will support it.
Please look at documentation and wiki on http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
A giant GIF. (You could attach a Javascript image preloader script to the movie to load it.)
Microsoft Video Codec VC1