undefined | Better HN

0 points_jomo10y ago0 comments

There's Beam [0], it's quite new but I've been quite amazed by their work. They invented some sort of own protocol built on web standards [1]. Also, their streams are actually live (i.e. minimal delay), it's all HTTPS and a lot of their work is open source. [2]

I hope this is going to be a thing.

0: https://beam.pro

1: http://forums.beam.pro/topic/168/where-we-re-at-with-html5-v...

2: https://github.com/watchbeam

0 comments

coldpie10y ago

Thanks for the link. Looks neat, but sadly doesn't seem to be working in Firefox for Linux. Don't have time to dig into why right now (missing MSE? some codec I don't have?)

_jomoOP10y ago

It wasn't working for me when I `had media.fragmented-mp4.*.enabled` turned on. Started working again after turning it off.

Other than that, I think they're A/B testing some experimental features. Perhaps try a few different streams and see if those work?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse