What is the technology behind streaming pages like earthcam.com?

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

 

There are some webpages that stream the live video to the browser, let's take an example of www.earthcam.com - does anyone know how exactly does it work? Do they have the stream sent through some node.js server with some protocols (what kind of?), etc. As I understand there are only few formats supported on each platform:

Safari:

HLS (iOS and mac only)
h.264
MP4
Firefox

DASH (via MSE but no h.264)
h.264 via Flash only!
VP9
MP4
OGG
Webm
IE

Flash
DASH (via MSE IE 11+ only)
h.264
MP4
Chrome

Flash
DASH (via MSE)
h.264
VP9
MP4
webm
ogg

And earth cam works everywhere. Do they use flash in case of windows and some other technology in case of Mac OS?

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