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		marquis on Aug 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting ... Media players: browsers don't have native support for H.264 over HLS or RTMP, and MPEG-Dash seems native to Chrome only. If the browsers could accept these natively, this would certainly speed flash's demise. Until then, what are the alternatives?

samsonradu on Aug 21, 2015 [–]

Exactly. Much of the live streaming on the web defaults to flash, the alternatives (hls, rtsp, webrtc) are all underperforming.

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