View Flumotion live stream without Cortado or external Player | html5 <video> tag

Flumotion is an OpenSource live stream / video on demand framework. You can easily setup a production system which handles up to 1k clients - if you got the bandwidth. You can provide the stream via http wrapped by a Java Applet or directly via Mplayer, VLC (by CnP the link) and so on...

Based on last nights experience - when we used Flumotion to stream the Big Brother Awards 2009, it seemed that some browsers actually misinterpret the stream (JAVA APPLET) as a downloadable file - I decided to devel. a KISS-style workaround.

Here's the Flumotion-Admin output

The "http-video-audio" component generates a direct link to the ogg-video stream (mount point). So why don't we use this stream embedded in a <html> tag?


<html>
<body>
<video src="http://your-url.com:your-Port/flumotionMountPoint" autoplay>
<div class="video-fallback">
<br>Sie benoetigen einen Browser, der HTML5 unterstuetzt.
</div>
</video>
<body>
</html>

This solution should have at least three advantages:
1) It is W3C compliant
2) You can easily post the above code everywhere you want to
3) You can put the above html file in your var/www folder and style it the way you want to

Cheers!

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