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It works. Flash Player is the only browser plugin yet that can do an actual streaming (not progressive download) using either Adobe's own Media Server or other similar Open Source at the back-end. If need be, that is the best form of protection against content theft so far.

It is not that difficult to setup the whole streaming with lots of free and open source solutions available today. It's just a good means to a useful end.

EDITS:

Just as I suspected, it's using a Media Server Streaming Server. "rtmp://cern.fc.llnwd.net/cern/"

It is also automatically streaming corresponding quality depending on the user's bandwidth.

  { bitrate: '1000', width: '640', file: 'cern1_900' },
  { bitrate: '700', width: '640', file: 'cern1_600' },
  { bitrate: '400', width: '640', file: 'cern1_300' },
So far, I haven't found a decent way to do that in HTML5 without having to encode multiple video-streams for multiple bitrates.


It works

Unfortunately I was unable to listen in due to being on a mobile device....




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