HTML5 Video Player

Hi

I have been using serviio for a few weeks now to allow me to play media in my Samsung television. I installed it on linux mint and everything is finally working smoothly with the demon, the new version of ffmpeg and all.

In short, I love this product and the mediabrowser is certainly a big big gain! Although I find it bad, for today's users, that it uses this old version of flowplayer.

It would add a lot to this product to have the video player a HTML5 player instead of flash, allowing iphones, ipads and other mobile devices that do not support flash, to use it properly. Flowplayer even has its own HTML5 video player and there are also more products available like http://videojs.com/

I believe that this feature would increase the usability a lot!


Anyways, thanks for a great product. Keep the good work up!

[slyguy42o]

i think that this is already in the pipeline if i am not mistaken.

Agree with OP. atm im trying to find a simple way to play files from my server at home round at my sisters on her xbox 360. now the console has IE installed i can connect to the mediaserver through my home IP however cant play due to the lack of flash support

[spudy12]

+1 to this as-well.

[zip]

I'm looking at this now ... basically HTML5 will only work for iOS devices, as it needs OS support for HLS streaming. On other devices it'll still be Flash.

[spudy12]

Am I right in thinking it'll also work for Safari on Mac for Lion and Snow Leopard?

[zip]

Yes it should. Although Safari should still support Flash too, so it'll fall back to one of these.

[spudy12]

thats great news. Would prefer html player as have had some problems getting with flash and safari on my mac but with flash as a fall back, perfect

keep up the good work!

[zip]

it's still a wip, but it looks like HTML5 will be only supported for iOS devices initially. There are no HTML5 payers capable of all the things I need at the moment.

SO know this is an old thread. We are in 2015 now and modern browsers support html5 player esp smart TVS (that no longer support flash). So does serviio now use a html5 player as standard. I want to go pro but wont unless i know it uses html5 player by default (is there a setting where i can tell it to use html5 player?)

Cheers

[DenyAll]

Maybe time to revisit. Not sure if this was ever looked at: http://www.videojs.com/ but seems to work on iDevices and all browsers I have tested with.

this would be great!

+1

So just wasted 25 bucks buying pro. It still uses flash so it is not usable on my smart TV. Seriously who uses flash any more? MediaBrowser needs an update to use html5 video player by default and then fall back to flash.

How do i/we get this to a high enough priority to get this done?

[grolschie]

Does your smart tv have a DLNA client? If so, it might be better than using the web-browser.

It does but its not very good (lg smartshare - 2015). I did have plex media server installed and used the playz lg app (which was ok) but plex media server isnt very good at seperating out different versions of same movie i.e. it thinks 3d version and 2d version of a movie is the same thing, so when i play the movie it always plays the 3d version. I wrote my own plex media player for lg tv to fix that, but plex still doesn't play some of my files for example i ripped my sons TMNT dvds and plex wont play those but serviio does.

I am thinking of writting a serviio wrapper for my same app using the serviio CDS. A shame people need pro to use CDS. Plex has a http api out of the box.

Still my point is the out of box mediabrowser in serviio SHOULD be using html5 player by default al lthe time and then fall back onto flash...or at least make it optional or have a profile for html5 (at the moment there is just the ios profile (which does use html5)

[zip]

I wrote about it here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19330#p102228

zip, what about adaptive bitrate? With HLS it's possible to transcode multiples bitrates. I miss a default resolution with lower quality for mediabrowser.

[zip]

I doubt many have PCs strong enough to transcode to 3 qualities at the same time. It'd be also taking a lot of disk space.