Hello, I've written a couple of messages last couple of days, and I'd say for now ignore them. I've been doing a lot of testing with many different configurations and honestly I'm pretty lost on how to get this working... I'm running a simple test... I'm simulating a live stream by reading a file with ffmpeg and feeding it to ffserver. The file I have is mp4 with h264 and aac. I want to be able to play it within an HTML5 <video> object by accessing via http from ffserver. So my first question... is this even possible, within <video> object and http? What would be the appropriate ffserver config and ffmpeg command line? My current command line to feed ffserver is: $ ffmpeg -re -i sample.mp4 -c copy http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm ffmpeg version 2.6.git Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) configuration: --prefix=/home/ubuntu/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-cflags=-I/home/ubuntu/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/ubuntu/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/home/ubuntu/bin --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-nonfree libavutil 54. 23.101 / 54. 23.101 libavcodec 56. 35.101 / 56. 35.101 libavformat 56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100 libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100 libavfilter 5. 16.100 / 5. 16.100 libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101 libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100 libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100 Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'sample.mp4': Metadata: major_brand : qt minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: qt creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 encoder : Lavf52.73.0 Duration: 00:09:56.46, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 524 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 424x240, 420 kb/s, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 24 tbn, 48 tbc (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler encoder : libx264 Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 99 kb/s (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler [libx264 @ 0x2379000] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX [libx264 @ 0x2379000] profile High, level 2.1 [libx264 @ 0x2379000] 264 - core 142 r2389 956c8d8 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2014 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=3 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=5 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=abr mbtree=1 bitrate=64 ratetol=1.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 vbv_maxrate=128 vbv_bufsize=128 nal_hrd=none filler=0 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00 [libx264 @ 0x2361d40] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX [libx264 @ 0x2361d40] profile High, level 1b [libx264 @ 0x2361d40] 264 - core 142 r2389 956c8d8 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2014 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=3 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=5 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=abr mbtree=1 bitrate=64 ratetol=1.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 vbv_maxrate=128 vbv_bufsize=128 nal_hrd=none filler=0 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00 [libx264 @ 0x2364520] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX [libx264 @ 0x2364520] profile High, level 2.1 [libx264 @ 0x2364520] 264 - core 142 r2389 956c8d8 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2014 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=3 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=5 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=abr mbtree=1 bitrate=64 ratetol=1.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 vbv_maxrate=128 vbv_bufsize=128 nal_hrd=none filler=0 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00 Output #0, ffm, to 'http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm': Metadata: major_brand : qt minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: qt creation_time : now encoder : Lavf56.31.100 Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: aac (libfdk_aac), 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 64 kb/s (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler encoder : Lavc56.35.101 libfdk_aac Stream #0:1(eng): Video: h264 (libx264), yuv420p, 432x240, q=-1--1, 64 kb/s, 24 fps, 1000k tbn, 5 tbc (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler encoder : Lavc56.35.101 libx264 Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: aac (libfdk_aac), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler encoder : Lavc56.35.101 libfdk_aac Stream #0:3(eng): Video: h264 (libx264), yuv420p, 160x128, q=-1--1, 64 kb/s, 24 fps, 1000k tbn, 5 tbc (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler encoder : Lavc56.35.101 libx264 Stream #0:4(eng): Video: h264 (libx264), yuv420p, 424x240, q=-1--1, 64 kb/s, 24 fps, 1000k tbn, 5 tbc (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00 handler_name : DataHandler encoder : Lavc56.35.101 libx264 Stream mapping: Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (aac (native) -> aac (libfdk_aac)) Stream #0:0 -> #0:1 (h264 (native) -> h264 (libx264)) Stream #0:1 -> #0:2 (aac (native) -> aac (libfdk_aac)) Stream #0:0 -> #0:3 (h264 (native) -> h264 (libx264)) Stream #0:0 -> #0:4 (h264 (native) -> h264 (libx264)) Press [q] to stop, [?] for help frame= 4 fps=0.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 size= 4kB time=00:00:00.51 bitrate= frame= 7 fps=7.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 size= 4kB time=00:00:01.00 bitrate= frame= 9 fps=6.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 size= 4kB time=00:00:01.51 bitrate= frame= 12 fps=6.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 q=0.0 size= 4kB time=00:00:02.00 bitrate= frame= 12 fps=5.0 q=-1.0 Lq=-1.0 q=-1.0 size= 132kB time=00:00:02.21 bitrate= 487.4kbits/s dup=0 drop=117 I won't provide the ffserver <Stream> config because honestly I've tried quite a few and none worked... so I'm reaching out for help to see which one would work given that I'm trying to maintain the original audio and video codecs to play back via HTML5. Again, is this doable with ffserver and HTML5? All the combinations I tried, the HTML5 video window simply returned "No video with supported format and MIME type found" If it is possible to do this in HTML5 <video> what would the appropriate ffserver config be? If not possible then do I need to use a player like flowplayer? Any help is appreciated. thank you Ricardo