You can always use your own player.

Players also just have to do a lot — Shaka player, without controls, is 392K uncompressed (109KB Brotli'ed).

Out of curiosity (I don't know much about HLS haha) does the built-in

<video/>

work with m3u8 or dash?

Just wondering because I have a situation where the user doesn't really need to control a video (aside from pause-play which I can implement via JS) but I'd still like HLS.

Only in certain browsers HLS does. Key example is iOS Safari. Some others too but not Chrome or FF

The

<video>

tag doesn't give you any adaptive bitrate — so you have to load one quality and trade-off quality vs. client bandwidth — and so it's very limited vs. a full player. It's really only great for super-short videos.

Would you recommend using the player and just turning off controls somehow?

(for HLS)

https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/viewing-videos/using-the-player-api/#properties - see

controls (boolean)

😉

😮 I didn't even look at the docs for the player

🤦‍♂️ Thanks

Nice player BTW. Looks great.

Quick Stream question.

If SRT is sent and RTMPS is used to receive, is SRT support required on the receiving client as well?

You are supposed to be able to input as RTMP or SRT and pull down as either.

I've sent RTMPS and pulled down SRT, and sent SRT and pulled down RTMPS

Yup, just wondering if my client (compiled without

--enable-libsrt

) can receive over RTMPS when the other device is sending as SRT.

Yes

Stream transmuxes between them. With RTMPS you get FLV container and with SRT you get mpeg-ts, so they're pretty much entirely unrelated

I'm waiting for a few bugs to be fixed by CF then in my implementation I plan to always pull as SRT, then give my users the option to send as either

It's a nifty set up for allowing support for both protocols

Is stream still only 1080p 30fps or is it higher res and fps now?

Hi. I tried out stream for my site last month naively thinking that the $5 per month was the total I would pay. My site has a silent video as a poster (about 10 seconds long). I ended up with a bigger bill because I hadn't realised that as the video was "streamed" then just having a couple of tabs open with the video running on my computer meant I racked up an inordinate amount of minutes 😄 Am I using Stream wrong? Or should I just not be using it for such situations? Is there somewhere I can host video (much like Vimeo)? Thanks

Stream is billed on 'minutes delivered' so probably not the best for that use-case haha

Ha, as I was beginning to suspect.

If it's a very small video file, you will probably be able to get away with serving it manually (serving the raw file, not using stream). The CF TOS forbids a disproportionate amount of non-html content, but a very short video will probably be fine, especially if it's delivered in a modern format. Keep in mind this is not legal advice, of course

Thanks for this. A definite consideration for such small video files. However, I have other videos that are 10 minutes. Does CF have a large asset CDN? Ultimately I would do my own encoding but serve the files from CF.

you could use R2 for that maybe

R2, but it has to be served from a Worker at the moment.