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DrJokepu on July 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak

Twitch works just fine with HTML5 these days, including chat.

chippy on July 12, 2015 [–]

How do you get the video to play with HTML5?

DrJokepu on July 12, 2015 | [–]

Works out of the box on Safari 8 with no Flash installed.

Edit: proof: http://i.imgur.com/myfsoNv.png

rockdoe on July 13, 2015 | | | [–]

It's using HLS, so not really HTML5 but an Apple specific proprietary extension.

The HTML5 solution is usually to run DASH via a JS demuxer utilizing MSE.

decisiveness on July 13, 2015 | | | [–]

Wonder if they'll ever ad support for Firefox.

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